Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Mon, 5 Nov 2001 15:58:03 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Mon, 5 Nov 2001 15:57:53 -0500 Received: from quattro-eth.sventech.com ([205.252.89.20]:6151 "EHLO quattro.sventech.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Mon, 5 Nov 2001 15:57:45 -0500 Date: Mon, 5 Nov 2001 16:04:25 -0500 From: Johannes Erdfelt To: Pavel Machek Cc: Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: 2.4.14-pre6 Message-ID: <20011105160425.H20031@sventech.com> In-Reply-To: <20011102120108.A47@toy.ucw.cz> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20011102120108.A47@toy.ucw.cz>; from pavel@suse.cz on Fri, Nov 02, 2001 at 12:01:08PM +0000 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Fri, Nov 02, 2001, Pavel Machek wrote: > > Oh, and the first funny patches for the upcoming SMT P4 cores are starting > > to show up. More to come. > > What is SMT P4? Symmetric Multi Threading IIRC. Essentially having a virtual dual CPU system on one die where you can dispatch multiple programs to the differen execution units. For example you can run a FP intensive program at the same time as an Integer intensive program. Nowhere close to true dual CPU performance because of resource contention on the execution units, but better than single CPU performance. JE - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/