From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Dxfhy-0006fg-U7 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 27 Jul 2005 06:48:03 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id j6R6kQtU011510; Wed, 27 Jul 2005 06:46:26 GMT Received: from mail.mng.mn ([202.179.0.111]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id j6R6kD2G004132 for ; Wed, 27 Jul 2005 06:46:23 GMT Received: (qmail 79550 invoked by uid 399); 27 Jul 2005 07:50:12 -0000 Message-ID: <20050727075012.79549.qmail@mail.mng.mn> References: <20050727062947.73020.qmail@mail.mng.mn> <25f58b7910e09fd5453bb3ec534330d1@xsmail.com> In-Reply-To: <25f58b7910e09fd5453bb3ec534330d1@xsmail.com> From: "Dulmandakh Sukhbaatar" To: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-amd64] Re: amd64 and kernel configuration Date: Wed, 27 Jul 2005 15:50:12 +0800 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-amd64@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 1054ae14-6361-46d9-ae01-1e9c7eba4ce8 X-Archives-Hash: 3a8f49b0b6a790e535e54d34d063800f Thanks. How can I enable hypertransport in kernel or somewhere? Anyone knows about NUMA? I read about it, and it seems technology for multiprocessor systems. Thus I have single CPU, I don't need it. Right? > > On 27/07/2005, at 4:10 PM, Duncan wrote: >> >> SMP is short for Symmetrical Multi-Processing. Traditionally, it meant >> you had two CPUs. However, hyperthreading is treated by the kernel as >> two >> CPUs, which is why SMP must be enabled to get the hyperthreading option. >> Note that the newest thing to come to x86/x86_64 is dual-core CPUs. >> These >> CPUs actually have two logical CPUs in one package. This is better than >> hyperthreading because it's the real thing. > > Actually, dual-core means they have two physical cores in one package. Two > logical cores = hyperthreading. ;P > > On that note, you want the AMD dual cores as well, because they are much > better designed (they have the crossbar architecture all ready to drop in > additional cores, whereas the current Intel dual-core are really ugly > hacks and perform terribly compared to the AMD ones) > > -- > gentoo-amd64@gentoo.org mailing list > -- gentoo-amd64@gentoo.org mailing list