RFC: Simplfying hyperthreading distinctions

Julian Elischer julian at freebsd.org
Sat Mar 7 09:43:40 UTC 2015


On 3/6/15 3:41 PM, John Baldwin wrote:
> We are now in the odd situation where we refer to a small (and 
> shrinking) set of CPUs that support HTT as HTT and we refer to a 
> much larger (and growing) set of CPUs that support HTT as something 
> else. This means that if a random user wants to see if FreeBSD 
> supports HTT they won't see that in dmesg on a modern CPU without 
> having some sort of magic decoder ring.
I like the HTT (SMT variant)  idea.  More information is better.





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