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 1Dxihl-0008Vi-Bu for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 27 Jul 2005 10:00:01 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id j6R9wKtC000187; Wed, 27 Jul 2005 09:58:20 GMT Received: from zproxy.gmail.com (zproxy.gmail.com [64.233.162.204]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j6R9wIbc023383 for ; Wed, 27 Jul 2005 09:58:19 GMT Received: by zproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id v1so92683nzb for ; Wed, 27 Jul 2005 02:58:34 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:reply-to:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=BIj0P1fS4NVPqFU4LEDMvlTrQ7RTv3SAJ3e9NY50qyG3MdXtCQqe5/4M2sVHI+OdHOzqEqrvIyNbYyGY+4xrezXRtm/9VMjNs3vQ0dLNTP/tX1DcU5+JdoFzOiKIFrJi6Q/BrW9J/zPrx4FKE9X4Eh2l8vfqoix4u7rgbpCjvys= Received: by 10.36.224.6 with SMTP id w6mr664661nzg; Wed, 27 Jul 2005 02:58:34 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.36.81.20 with HTTP; Wed, 27 Jul 2005 02:58:34 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <3655f5d9050727025836c15abd@mail.gmail.com> Date: Wed, 27 Jul 2005 09:58:34 +0000 From: netpython To: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: amd64 and kernel configuration In-Reply-To: <42E73212.2010202@olomouc.com> 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=WINDOWS-1252 Content-Disposition: inline References: <20050727062947.73020.qmail@mail.mng.mn> <25f58b7910e09fd5453bb3ec534330d1@xsmail.com> <20050727075012.79549.qmail@mail.mng.mn> <42E73212.2010202@olomouc.com> X-MIME-Autoconverted: from base64 to 8bit by robin.gentoo.org id j6R9wIbc023383 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-MIME-Autoconverted: from 8bit to quoted-printable by robin.gentoo.org id j6R9wKuB000187 X-Archives-Salt: 0bae956e-ed9b-4aa6-9778-92e4993865b2 X-Archives-Hash: f962957a53f3dcc67fefea5e1231c9f7 I have enabled SMP on my gentoo AMD64 system and my box doesn't run any slower (or faster). On 7/27/05, Michal =8Eerav=EDk wrote: > So does it mean I should enable SMP support for Athlon64 (winchester, > venice) ? >=20 > michal >=20 >=20 > Dulmandakh Sukhbaatar wrote: >=20 > > Thanks. How can I enable hypertransport in kernel or somewhere? Anyon= e > > knows about NUMA? I read about it, and it seems technology for > > multiprocessor systems. Thus I have single CPU, I don't need it. Righ= t? > > > >> > >> On 27/07/2005, at 4:10 PM, Duncan wrote: > >> > >>> > >>> SMP is short for Symmetrical Multi-Processing. Traditionally, it m= eant > >>> 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 =3D 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 > > > > > > >=20 > -- > gentoo-amd64@gentoo.org mailing list >=20 > --=20 gentoo-amd64@gentoo.org mailing list