Gentoo Archives: gentoo-amd64

From: "Gary E. Miller" <gem@××××××.com>
To: gentoo-amd64@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] Hyper-threading an AMD64 3800+
Date: Wed, 10 Jun 2009 22:17:18
Message-Id: alpine.LNX.1.10.0906101515520.30822@catbert.rellim.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-amd64] Hyper-threading an AMD64 3800+ by Greg
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4 Yo Greg!
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6 On Wed, 10 Jun 2009, Greg wrote:
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8 > I've been having trouble determining if my processor has hyper-threading.
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10 This is from a Xeon:
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12 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 pbe syscall nx lm constant_tsc arch_perfmon pebs bts rep_good nopl pni monitor ds_cpl vmx est tm2 ssse3 cx16 xtpr dca sse4_1 lahf_lm
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14 notice the 'ht' flag? That is hyperthreading. Pretty useless except
15 in very special cases. AFAIK, AMD never does HT.
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18 RGDS
19 GARY
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