Re: Pentium 4 hyperthreading

Posted in 2004

Andrew Hamm — Tue, 3 Feb 2004 09:32:42 +1100 — source: Usenet: comp.databases.informix

Ronald Cole wrote: > > The hyperthreading-friendly scheduler is supposed to be in the 2.6 > kernel. Red Hat might have backported it to the 2.4 kernel in RHL9 or > RHEL3, but I haven't checked. I haven't read anything about these new-fangled processors. From what you are implying, it sounds like it's really a 1.8 or 1.5 processor chip? How is the "2nd" processor restricted? This chip might be a specific case where "processor zero" must be reserved for hardware and O/S duties by setting the AFF_ parameters properly.