Bug 436062 - BIOS Parameters Section of the HOWTO needs completion
Summary: BIOS Parameters Section of the HOWTO needs completion
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Enterprise MRG
Classification: Red Hat
Component: Realtime_Tuning_Guide
Version: beta
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
low
low
Target Milestone: 1.1
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Assignee: Luis Claudio R. Goncalves
QA Contact: Jeff Needle
URL: http://rt.et.redhat.com/page/RHEL-RT_...
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2008-03-05 04:08 UTC by Lana Brindley
Modified: 2013-10-23 23:06 UTC (History)
10 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2008-10-30 06:07:19 UTC
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Description Lana Brindley 2008-03-05 04:08:57 UTC
Description of problem:

BIOS parameters need completion. Leaving out of the Tuning Guide for now.

Assigned to Clark for re-assigning as you see fit :)

LKB

Comment 1 Clark Williams 2008-03-11 19:44:56 UTC
Hmmm, BIOS parameters are a wildly differing collection of stuff.  I'm going to
assign this one to Luis, but CC Steven, Peter and Arnaldo, since I'm sure they
have opionions on this.


Comment 2 Lana Brindley 2008-03-27 02:42:47 UTC
This is a friendly reminder :) LKB

Comment 3 Clark Williams 2008-07-02 17:00:41 UTC
I think there are really only two things we can address here:

1. NUMA issues
2. SMI's

In both cases, we will have to write in generalities, since different BIOS
vendors use different terms, have different interfaces, etc. to address these
issues. 

The NUMA issue is when you're running on a NUMA machine (e.g. HP DL585) and your
application is not NUMA-aware, you want to set the system to be "memory
interleaved" rather than leaving it NUMA.  We may want to get some additional
information from lwoodman on how to describe this.

The SMI issue is not something that's easily handled. I suspect we'll have to
say something like "Go into your BIOS setup screen and see if System Mangement
Interrupts or SMIs are mentioned. If they are, turn them off for more
deterministic behavior". Not even positive that *any* vendor offers that option
though.


Comment 4 Lana Brindley 2008-10-30 06:07:19 UTC
This has not been included in the current document due to lack of information. If it is still required please open a new bug with source information.

LKB


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