Dual core AMD64 4400+ X2 works fine on Abit AV8

Attila Nagy bra at fsn.hu
Fri Sep 23 05:39:11 PDT 2005


Alexander Konovalenko wrote:
> 2) recompiled and installed 5.4-STABLE kernel with "options SMP", then I 
> tested it with old single core CPU
> CPU: AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 4400+ (2247.42-MHz K8-class CPU)
>   Origin = "AuthenticAMD"  Id = 0x20f32  Stepping = 2
> Features=0x178bfbff<FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,C
> MOV,PAT,PSE36,CLFLUSH,MMX,FXSR,SSE,SSE2,HTT>
>   Features2=0x1<SSE3>
>   AMD Features=0xe2500800<SYSCALL,NX,MMX+,<b25>,LM,3DNow+,3DNow>
>   Hyperthreading: 2 logical CPUs
Can this "I see hyperthreading, while there is no hyperthreading" cause 
performance degradation, for example by HTT defaults to off in the 
recent 5.x builds?

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