Linux Kernel Network Subsystem Patching

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Wed, Jan 22, 2014 at 09:47:58AM -0500, Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 22, 2014 at 02:18:29AM -0500, Aruna Hewapathirane wrote:
> > *Bit of a read but truly helped me to understand Hyperthreading vs
> > Multi-threading vs Super Threading, may help others so sharing : *
> > 
> > Hyper-threading is using one processor but logically dividing it into two
> > so that it gives the user the benefit of two processors with only using the
> > resources equivalent to almost one.
> > 
> > This is achieved by sharing, partitioning and duplicating the various
> > resources almost into two processors. Used by the latest Pentium
> > processors, which are HT enabled, in layman's terms, it allows you to use
> > more than two applications
> > at the same time without slowing down processing speed.
> > 
> > Multi-threading is when various processes are time sliced such that it
> > gives the user the impression that all the programs are being run at the
> > same time. This is what happens on your computer regularly.
> 
> No that is multi tasking.  Multi threading is when one process has
> multiple exutable states in it that can be run at the same time (each
> thread has it's own stack, and cpu register state),

Actually it becomes a terminology problem.  Different places and people
use the terms differently.

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Len Sorensen
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