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Date: Tue, 18 Jun 2002 21:27:41 +0200 (SAST)
From: Zwane Mwaikambo <zwane@linux.realnet.co.sz>
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On Tue, 18 Jun 2002, Benjamin LaHaise wrote:

> On HyperThreading, you want to specify that either cpu in a pair is 
> okay.  In larger SMP machines that share a cache between 4 CPUs, the 
> mask is likely to contain all 4 CPUs in each quad.

Hmm so you want to apply the same 'node' principal to HT? The way HT works 
i can see why that would be a good idea. Node affinity on the quads makes 
sense and distinguishing which cpus belong to which quads would also help 
for irq affinity.

Thanks,
	Zwane Mwaikambo

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