From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Feb 23 11:01:43 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E748416A400 for ; Fri, 23 Feb 2007 11:01:42 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from pietro.cerutti@gmail.com) Received: from an-out-0708.google.com (an-out-0708.google.com [209.85.132.249]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A8C5C13C428 for ; Fri, 23 Feb 2007 11:01:42 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from pietro.cerutti@gmail.com) Received: by an-out-0708.google.com with SMTP id c24so324123ana for ; Fri, 23 Feb 2007 03:01:42 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition; b=BryQTIUsQUDIh4y4Lxt/u72bg2K/sLjOURb2dDctibehVNIP0rGm2s5OGokdHbKnEdUUdp9y86BwUktlk6/EsvNLcdP0M5LFq7yJSWpSUeXEFlCMA1I1VDWccJyOai25qbzKsQ1DJcV4E2VzYF5IMncaYmAOJ3SixbHg4ffV47I= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition; b=fgT8nugbHyZz2nOh9H0NoSF2iTdkIxQQL9Bk+0qNCsGckax/gLy49dSQrBxWaS2VOOIRwylQ0nVbgr4Zk5b4GW7zpeReolMlcrh3P8zTr8aH5BsynonBM+NfqXIiu8HlbUIDt6Kyy6oFqUxEgwcXNJ/DtT5SRq7c8o9HUwDuZwM= Received: by 10.100.112.19 with SMTP id k19mr1169858anc.1172228502209; Fri, 23 Feb 2007 03:01:42 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.100.33.5 with HTTP; Fri, 23 Feb 2007 03:01:42 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: Date: Fri, 23 Feb 2007 12:01:42 +0100 From: "Pietro Cerutti" To: "FreeBSD Mailing List" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Subject: SMP terminology X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 23 Feb 2007 11:01:43 -0000 Hi list, just a quick question, for the sake of knowledge: > dmesg | grep "^ cpu" cpu0 (BSP): APIC ID: 0 cpu1 (AP): APIC ID: 1 Does anyone know what BSP and AP mean? I search google and wikipedia but I can't find anything useful, let alone "The Bulk Synchronous Parallel computer is a model for designing parallel algorithms." this one, which I don't think is related. Thanx! -- Pietro Cerutti - ASCII Ribbon Campaign - against HTML e-mail and proprietary attachments www.asciiribbon.org