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So does it mean I should enable SMP support for Athlon64 (winchester, |
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michal |
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Dulmandakh Sukhbaatar wrote: |
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> Thanks. How can I enable hypertransport in kernel or somewhere? Anyone |
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> knows about NUMA? I read about it, and it seems technology for |
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> multiprocessor 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 |
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>>> as two |
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>>> CPUs, which is why SMP must be enabled to get the hyperthreading |
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>>> 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 |
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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 |
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>> package. Two logical cores = hyperthreading. ;P |
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>> On that note, you want the AMD dual cores as well, because they are |
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>> much better designed (they have the crossbar architecture all ready |
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>> to drop in additional cores, whereas the current Intel dual-core are |
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>> really ugly hacks and perform terribly compared to the AMD ones) |
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