RE: [PATCH] hyper-threading information in /proc/cpuinfo

["Nakajima, Jun" <jun.nakajima@intel.com>]

I don't understand. HT is one implementaion of (true) SMT. 

Thanks,
Jun

-----Original Message-----
From: Rik van Riel [mailto:riel@conectiva.com.br]
Sent: Friday, October 25, 2002 5:49 PM
To: Alan Cox
Cc: Nakajima, Jun; Robert Love; 'Dave Jones'; 'akpm@digeo.com';
'linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org'; 'chrisl@vmware.com'; 'Martin J. Bligh'
Subject: RE: [PATCH] hyper-threading information in /proc/cpuinfo


On 25 Oct 2002, Alan Cox wrote:
> On Fri, 2002-10-25 at 22:50, Nakajima, Jun wrote:

> > Can you please change "siblings\t" to "threads\t\t". SuSE 8.1, for
example,
> > is already doing it:

> Im just wondering what we would then use to describe a true multiple cpu
> on a die x86. Im curious what the powerpc people think since they have
> this kind of stuff - is there a generic terminology they prefer ?

Agreed.  Siblings is probably best for HT stuff and threads
are probably best reserved for true SMT CPUs.

Then there's the SMP-on-a-chip, but we should probably just
call those CPUs.

regards,

Rik
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