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Thanks. How can I enable hypertransport in kernel or somewhere? Anyone knows |
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about NUMA? I read about it, and it seems technology for multiprocessor |
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systems. Thus I have single CPU, I don't need it. Right? |
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> On 27/07/2005, at 4:10 PM, Duncan wrote: |
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>> SMP is short for Symmetrical Multi-Processing. Traditionally, it meant |
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>> you had two CPUs. However, hyperthreading is treated by the kernel as |
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>> two |
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>> CPUs, which is why SMP must be enabled to get the hyperthreading option. |
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>> Note that the newest thing to come to x86/x86_64 is dual-core CPUs. |
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>> These |
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>> CPUs actually have two logical CPUs in one package. This is better than |
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>> hyperthreading because it's the real thing. |
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> Actually, dual-core means they have two physical cores in one package. Two |
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> logical cores = hyperthreading. ;P |
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> On that note, you want the AMD dual cores as well, because they are much |
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> better designed (they have the crossbar architecture all ready to drop in |
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> additional cores, whereas the current Intel dual-core are really ugly |
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> hacks and perform terribly compared to the AMD ones) |
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