Linux Kernel Network Subsystem Patching

Mel Wilson mwilson-Ja3L+HSX0kI at public.gmane.org
Tue Jan 21 21:40:08 UTC 2014


On Tue, 2014-01-21 at 16:26 -0500, Bob Jonkman wrote:
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> Is there a difference between hyperthreading and multithreading?
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> (Not a snark -- I really don't know, and would like to...)

AFAIK hyperthreading is a hardware option in some Intel processors that
lets a single processor emulate a dual-processor-pair.  So that it would
let you get some of the advantages of multiprocessing without two actual
cores.  Lennart can probably say it more precisely.

	Mel.


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