Re: 2.6.8 and 2.6.9 Dual Opteron glitches

From: Thomas Zehetbauer
Date: Tue Nov 02 2004 - 17:01:38 EST


On Die, 2004-11-02 at 18:55 +0100, Tomas Carnecky wrote:
> Even on Pentium 4 Processors with HT?

Of course not, HyperThrading (HT) is just the operating system and the
processor agreeing on the lie that there are two processors. Maybe this
is still advantageous for operating systems still not supporting real
preemptive multitasking.

Tom

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