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SubjectRE: [PATCH] hyper-threading information in /proc/cpuinfo
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The notion of "SMT (Simultaneous Multi-Threaded)" architecture has been
there for a while (at least 8 years, as far as I know). You would get tons
of info if you search it in Internet.

Jun

-----Original Message-----
From: Jeff Garzik [mailto:jgarzik@pobox.com]
Sent: Friday, October 25, 2002 3:26 PM
To: Robert Love
Cc: Daniel Phillips; Alan Cox; Nakajima, Jun; 'Dave Jones';
'akpm@digeo.com'; 'linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org'; 'chrisl@vmware.com';
'Martin J. Bligh'
Subject: Re: [PATCH] hyper-threading information in /proc/cpuinfo


Robert Love wrote:

>On Fri, 2002-10-25 at 18:06, Daniel Phillips wrote:
>
>
>
>>On Saturday 26 October 2002 00:14, Alan Cox wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>>>Im just wondering what we would then use to describe a true multiple cpu
>>>on a die x86. Im curious what the powerpc people think since they have
>>>this kind of stuff - is there a generic terminology they prefer ?
>>>
>>>
>>MIPS also has it, for N=2.
>>
>>
>
>Yep, neat chip :)
>
>POWER4 calls the technology "Chip-Multiprocessing (CMP)" but I have
>never seen terminology for referring to the on-core processors
>individually.
>
>They do call the SMT units "threads" obviously, however, so if Alan is
>OK with it maybe we should go with Jun's opinion and name the field
>"thread" ?
>
>

"thread" already has another use. Let's not let the idiocy [most
likely] perpetrated by marketing folks to filter down to the useful
technical level. :)

Sorta like Intel and their re-re-use of "IPF." It's only going to
increase confusion.

Jeff




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