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 1Dxg0Q-0006bc-1S for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 27 Jul 2005 07:07:06 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id j6R74kLe029507; Wed, 27 Jul 2005 07:04:46 GMT Received: from www.tucnak.org (mail.tucnak.org [213.191.99.118]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j6R74juA013157 for ; Wed, 27 Jul 2005 07:04:46 GMT Received: from vecernik (PCvecernik [212.80.71.26]) by www.tucnak.org (8.13.3/8.13.3/Debian-6) with ESMTP id j6R73aQf027285 for ; Wed, 27 Jul 2005 09:03:36 +0200 Received: from [127.0.0.1] (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by vecernik (Postfix) with ESMTP id 43755342A1 for ; Wed, 27 Jul 2005 09:04:51 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <42E73212.2010202@olomouc.com> Date: Wed, 27 Jul 2005 09:04:50 +0200 From: =?UTF-8?B?TWljaGFsIMW9ZXJhdsOtaw==?= User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.6 (X11/20050722) X-Accept-Language: cs 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 To: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: amd64 and kernel configuration References: <20050727062947.73020.qmail@mail.mng.mn> <25f58b7910e09fd5453bb3ec534330d1@xsmail.com> <20050727075012.79549.qmail@mail.mng.mn> In-Reply-To: <20050727075012.79549.qmail@mail.mng.mn> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 67e48043-ddf3-473d-916e-4491f8663e83 X-Archives-Hash: cb389111e6b8478cb6364e96e4d66a58 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) >> -- >> gentoo-amd64@gentoo.org mailing list > > > -- gentoo-amd64@gentoo.org mailing list