Re: Dual cores on Core2Duo not detected?

[Shaun Q <shaun@c-think.com>]

On Mon, 13 Nov 2006, Jesper Juhl wrote:

> On 13/11/06, Shaun Q <shaun@c-think.com> 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?
If only that were it :)  Unfortunately, no...

> 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.
Yup, mine is set to 8 right now.>
> On a related note; you probably also want to enable CONFIG_SCHED_MC in
> addition to just SMP support.
Already set.
> --
> Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@gmail.com>
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Thanks for your help :)
Shaun
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