Hyper-Threading

Ed Wilts ewilts at ewilts.org
Fri Aug 26 19:18:02 UTC 2005


On Fri, Aug 26, 2005 at 09:07:26PM +0200, Rushan Sobar wrote:
> An advice which kernel should I use on Redhat 9 for Intel Hyper-Threading 
> Technology the normal kernel or the SMP kernel?

The smp kernel.  It will see the hyperthreaded CPU as 2 separate CPUs.
 
> 2nd question any hint which recommended for the Intel Hyper-Threading 
> Technology  Redhat 9 or Fedora Core 1, 2 , 3 ??

The 2.6 kernel scheduler was optimized for hyper-threading. If you're
going with Fedora Core anyway, go with FC 4.

        .../Ed

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