Re: Pentium 4 hyperthreading

Posted in 2004

Ronald Cole — Tue, 03 Feb 2004 14:09:03 -0800 — source: Usenet: comp.databases.informix

"Andrew Hamm" <ahamm@mail.com> writes: > 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. <http://www.intel.com/technology/hyperthread/>; <http://kerneltrap.org/node/view/391>; -- Forte International, P.O. Box 1412, Ridgecrest, CA 93556-1412 Ronald Cole <ronald@forte-intl.com> Phone: (760) 499-9142 President, CEO Fax: (760) 499-9152 My GPG fingerprint: C3AF 4BE9 BEA6 F1C2 B084 4A88 8851 E6C8 69E3 B00B