Re: [PATCH] hyper-threading information in /proc/cpuinfo

Yes, we care about that because vmware see a different CPU number from
the one reported by the customer. And HT twins cpu is consider 1.3x
instead of 2x.

Cheers

Chris

On Sat, Oct 26, 2002 at 05:48:11PM -0200, Rik van Riel wrote:
> On Sat, 26 Oct 2002, J.A. Magallon wrote:
> 
> > Summary:
> 
> > - each package can handle several (someone said 128+ ;) ) processor cores.
> >   We really do not mind if they are really independent (power4) or not
> >   (xeon, ht)
> 
> Here is the big opinion of difference.  Apparently people _do_
> care, otherwise they would have never asked for HT evil twins
> to be reported separately in /proc.
> 
> kind regards,
> 
> Rik
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