> The new Nehalems provide 8 logical threads in a single socket. All > those threads share a cache, and they have cmpxchg8b anyway, so this > won't matter.
FWIW, Nehalem EX actually goes to 8 cores/16 threads per socket. But worrying about 32-bit performance on Nehalem is a little silly -- this simplest solution is simply to run a 64-bit kernel. - R. _______________________________________________ Linuxppc-dev mailing list Linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org https://lists.ozlabs.org/listinfo/linuxppc-dev
