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Date:      Sat, 29 Mar 2003 09:42:13 +0000
From:      David Malone <dwmalone@maths.tcd.ie>
To:        Aristedes Maniatis <ari@ish.com.au>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: 4.8 hyperthreading changes
Message-ID:  <20030329094213.GA22311@walton.maths.tcd.ie>
In-Reply-To: <F07EDB4D-618A-11D7-B788-003065A9024A@ish.com.au>
References:  <20030328104638.T208@freebsdmall.com> <F07EDB4D-618A-11D7-B788-003065A9024A@ish.com.au>

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On Sat, Mar 29, 2003 at 01:05:39PM +1100, Aristedes Maniatis wrote:
> makes it seem like this is a new 4.8 feature. Should I be concerned 
> about upgrading when 4.8 is released in order to obtain the benefits of 
> better use of these CPUs?

The BIOS in the machine in question must be setting up the logical
CPUs so that they look like physical CPUS - in this case FreeBSD
treats them exactly like physical CPUs. The hypertreading support
in 4.8 can enable logical CPUs even if the BIOS has not set them
up.

	David.



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