Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Thu, 22 Aug 2002 14:12:30 -0700 | From | Chris Wedgwood <> | Subject | Re: Problem determining number of CPUs |
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On Wed, Aug 21, 2002 at 04:37:14PM +0200, Jesper Juhl wrote:
In the case of 4 HT capable CPU's it could be reported like
8 CPUs (4 physical)
or something like that to indicate that there is nothing wrong and the kernel is simply taking advantage of hyperthreading.
Seems like a good idea... people frequently get caught by this discrepancy in numbers to reporting the number of physical and virtual processors IMO is a good idea... however, I'm not really sure how this is determined so someone familiar with the ACPI magic would have to comment of whether or not this is reasonable :)
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