Re: PROBLEM: Incorrect CPUs (Xeon 1.8 with HT) frequency ?

From: Justin Cormack (justin@street-vision.com)
Date: Mon Jan 20 2003 - 11:01:06 EST


On Mon, 2003-01-20 at 15:32, Andrey V. Ignatov wrote:
> I think that kernel detect my CPUs not correctly. I have box with dual
> Xeon CPU 1.80GHz and HT feature. Kernel successfully found all 4
> virtual CPUs but frequency of each CPUs is incorrect as I mean.
> My system build on Intel® E7500 chipset.
> I try kernels : 2.4.20 & 2.4.21-pre3...
> Output from /proc/cpuinfo (for each processor the same):
> vendor_id : GenuineIntel
> cpu family : 15
> model : 2
> model name : Intel(R) Xeon(TM) CPU 1.80GHz
> stepping : 7
> cpu MHz : 798.659
> cache size : 512 KB
> fdiv_bug : no
> hlt_bug : no
> f00f_bug : no
> coma_bug : no
> fpu : yes
> fpu_exception : yes
> cpuid level : 2
> wp : yes
> flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm
> bogomips : 1592.52

Some BIOSs on the Xeon boards dont seem to set the multiplier right. Set
it by hand in the BIOS (as a multiple of real FSB ie 100 for 400MHz bus,
133 for 533 bus).

Justin

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