Ted Unangst Sent Wednesday, December 03, 2008 3:46 PM > On Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 5:14 PM, Anathae Townsend > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > The Intel Atom 270 is a single physical core with a new type of > > hyperthreading. > > I notice that the dmesg reports it as two separate cpus (cpu0 cpu1). > I'm > > guessing > > that this would mean that with dual core Atom 330 it bsd.mp would > report > > four cpus? > > most likely, but you probably don't want to use them in this > configuration if it's possible to disable hyperthreading.
I'm aware of the issues with the hyperthreading that was available on the Pentium 4 and would have to see evidence that the cache miss flaw has been removed. Is there any information on disabling the hyper- threading on the Atom processor?
