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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