On Sat, 9 Aug 2003, Baruch Shpirer wrote:
> Did anyone else hear the rumor about this Hyper Threading going already
> in beta production state to
> Laptops ? I talked this week already to 2 people who claim to know
> people who test this at home
> Both claim this laptops doing more box time over normal lithium power
> and real time smp behavior
> This shit is gonna rock if it works ok , does the latest kernel support
> this ?
Kernel 2.4.x supports Hyper-Threading.
Regards,
Shlomi Fish
> I wounder though what will amd response to this threat be
>
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> To: Micha Feigin; Linux-IL
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> On Saturday 09 August 2003 00:51, Micha Feigin wrote:
> > Hyper Threading is an Intel technology that enables one processor to
> >
> > > perform two operations at once in a similar manner to SMP (but still
>
> > > sharing some resources, which is not the case for SMP).
> > >
> > > http://www.intel.com/technology/hyperthread/
> >
> > There is about one line on that site that actuallu hints at what the
> > processor is doing and it sounds a bit like what mips is doing for
> > quite some time now, only since x86 commands are more complicated its
> > probably harder to implement.
>
> Since Intel's have been RISC chips under the hood ever since P2 (and
> maybe
> before that), maybe it wasn't that harder.
>
> --
> Oded
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