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Date: Fri, 25 Oct 2002 22:49:16 -0200 (BRST)
From: Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br>
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On 25 Oct 2002, Alan Cox wrote:
> On Fri, 2002-10-25 at 22:50, Nakajima, Jun wrote:

> > Can you please change "siblings\t" to "threads\t\t". SuSE 8.1, for example,
> > is already doing it:

> Im just wondering what we would then use to describe a true multiple cpu
> on a die x86. Im curious what the powerpc people think since they have
> this kind of stuff - is there a generic terminology they prefer ?

Agreed.  Siblings is probably best for HT stuff and threads
are probably best reserved for true SMT CPUs.

Then there's the SMP-on-a-chip, but we should probably just
call those CPUs.

regards,

Rik
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