Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: amd64 and kernel configuration

["Michal Žeravík" <michalz@olomouc.com>]

So does it mean I should enable SMP support for Athlon64 (winchester, 
venice) ?

michal


Dulmandakh Sukhbaatar wrote:

> 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)
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