[Gllug] Hyperthreading == on
Dean Wilson
dwilson at unixdaemon.net
Tue Mar 20 17:05:15 UTC 2007
On Tue, Mar 20, 2007 at 03:52:16PM +0000, - Tethys wrote:
> Under what circumstances could it be supported by the CPU and kernel
> and not be used? Surely if both support it, then by definition, unless
> your kernel is using a custom scheduler[1], hyperthreading *will* be
> being used.
When it's disabled in the BIOS.
In essence we want to turn it off everywhere it's on but finding those
places is less fun than you'd think.
Dean
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