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Subject: Re: [PATCH] hyper-threading information in /proc/cpuinfo
From: Robert Love <rml@tech9.net>
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On Fri, 2002-10-25 at 19:21, David D. Hagood wrote:

> Might I suggest "subcore", since that's really what it is - a sub-core 
> in the main chip.
> 
> My siblings are distinct entities from me, my sub-parts aren't.
> (now, were I part of a cojoined twin....)

Sibling makes sense if you look at the N processors in the package as
"siblings of each other" i.e. not a hierarchy (as subcore implies) but
just a "set of virtual processors in the same core".

If there are subcores, then I think there must be some major core.  If
two chips are siblings, then that merely says they are related (in this
case, the same parent package).

	Robert Love

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