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Date: Sat, 26 Oct 2002 17:48:11 -0200 (BRST)
From: Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] hyper-threading information in /proc/cpuinfo
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On Sat, 26 Oct 2002, J.A. Magallon wrote:

> Summary:

> - each package can handle several (someone said 128+ ;) ) processor cores.
>   We really do not mind if they are really independent (power4) or not
>   (xeon, ht)

Here is the big opinion of difference.  Apparently people _do_
care, otherwise they would have never asked for HT evil twins
to be reported separately in /proc.

kind regards,

Rik
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