Re: Dual cores on Core2Duo not detected?

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On 13/11/06, Shaun Q <[email protected]> wrote:
Hi there everyone --

I'm trying to build a custom kernel for using both cores of my new
Core2Duo E6600 processor...

I thought this was simply a matter of enabling the SMP support in the
kernel .config and recompiling, but when the kernel comes back up, still
only one core is detected.

With the default vanilla text-based SuSE 10.1 install, it does find both
cores...

Anyone have any pointers for me on what I might be missing?


This is probably not your problem, but it could be, so worth checking.
Are you booting with  maxcpus=1  on your kernel commandline?

Another thing could be that you need to set CONFIG_NR_CPUS to
something more than 2. at least in the past some people observed that
depending on hov CPUs/cores got numbered CONFIG_NR_CPUS needed to be
set at least as high as the highest numbered core. Try setting it to 8
and see if that makes a difference.

On a related note; you probably also want to enable CONFIG_SCHED_MC in
addition to just SMP support.

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