RFC: Simplfying hyperthreading distinctions

Rui Paulo rpaulo at me.com
Fri Mar 6 23:14:13 UTC 2015


On 6 Mar 2015, at 14:01, Adrian Chadd <adrian at freebsd.org> wrote:
> 
> If you're looking to ship a single image that runs on a variety of
> platforms (say, you're pfsense, just say) and you want to set defaults
> that say "hey, i don't mind doing some processing on SMT, but HTT is
> no thanks) then how do you achieve that?

Who cares?  We're talking about Pentium 4 stuff.  I'm with John: the distinction should go away.  If Intel comes up with a new name, we'll just think about it when it happens.

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Rui Paulo





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