How to disable hyperthreading in the kernel?

[few]

Is it possible to tell the kernel to not use HT if it is enabled in the BIOS? Disabling in the BIOS is no option since I would have to do it on 64 systems.

Thanks for your help.

Edit: I forgot to mention, that disabling SMP is no option either, because there are two CPUs on each board.

[massimo]

Put noht in your boot loaders configuration file in the corresponding kernel line.
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[few]

[few]

Thanks to Theimon on #gentoo who pointed me to [1], I have now a workaround.

cat /etc/init.d/disable_ht
#!/sbin/runscript

depend() {
before gmond
}

start() {
ebegin "Disable CPU 1 und 3: "
echo 0 > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu1/online
echo 0 > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu3/online
eend $? "Failed to start disable_ht"
}

stop() {
ebegin "Enabling CPU 1 und 3: "
echo 1 > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu1/online
echo 1 > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu3/online
eend $? "Failed to stop disable_ht"
}

By forcing it to start before gmond, I make ganglia report only 2 CPUs.


[1] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=440321

[frenkel]

Thanks for the script. I also couldn't get the "noht" option to work. Weird why it is listed as a valid option :S
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