Date: Mon, 8 Jan 2007 01:44:32 -0800
From: "Robin H. Johnson" <robbat2@gentoo.org>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Intel Core Duo/Duo2 T2300/E6400 - Hyper-Threading (the absence of)
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(Please CC me, I am not subscribed to LKML [I have set the
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On two of my new machines, with Intel Core Duo T2300 and Core2 Duo E6400
chips respectively, I noticed some weirdness in how many CPUs are
present.=20

If the hyper-threading bit is present in the CPU info, should there
always be a an extra CPU presented to the system per physical core?

Both the Core1 and Core2 chips I have the ht bit set, but present only
their two physical cores to the system. No access to the hyper-threading
capabilities at all. I also see no configuration options in the BIOS to
enable or disable hyper-threading. That is, /proc/cpuinfo and all
topology data only shows 2 CPUs present, and that they are not the HT
pair.
(CONFIG_NR_CPUS=3D8 is set).

(This was originally triggered by somebody else's code that read the CPU
flags, saw hyper-threading, and decided there were 2x cpus for each
physical core. Said code has already been taken out back and shot
repeatedly).

--=20
Robin Hugh Johnson
Gentoo Linux Developer
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