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I have enabled SMP on my gentoo AMD64 system and my |
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box doesn't run any slower (or faster). |
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On 7/27/05, Michal Žeravík <michalz@×××××××.com> wrote: |
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> So does it mean I should enable SMP support for Athlon64 (winchester, |
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> venice) ? |
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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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> >>> 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 |
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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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