linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/4] [x86] Add command line option to enable/disable hyper-threading.

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Message-Id: <1164980500.5257.922.camel@gullible>
Date:	Fri, 01 Dec 2006 08:41:40 -0500
From:	Ben Collins <ben.collins@...ntu.com>
To:	Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, torvalds@...l.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/4] [x86] Add command line option to enable/disable
	hyper-threading.

On Fri, 2006-12-01 at 13:29 +0000, Pavel Machek wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> > This patch adds a config option to allow disabling hyper-threading by
> > default, and a kernel command line option to changes this default at
> > boot time.
> 
> > +config X86_HT_DISABLE
> > +	bool "Disable Hyper-Threading by default"
> > +	depends on X86_HT
> > +	default n
> > +
> 
> Command line options are fine, but additional config options mirroring
> command line functionality look ugly to me...

There's actually two parts to the patch. One is the kernel command line
option to allow HT to be enabled/disabled. The second is this config
option that allows the default to be off instead of the current
always-on.

The idea is that we want our users to be able to use hyper-threading,
but we don't want it on by default.
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