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Date:      Fri, 13 Mar 2015 13:53:40 -0400
From:      John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org>
To:        Adrian Chadd <adrian@freebsd.org>
Cc:        Andriy Gapon <avg@freebsd.org>, "freebsd-arch@freebsd.org" <freebsd-arch@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: RFC: Simplfying hyperthreading distinctions
Message-ID:  <2652866.1YVC5LhOC2@ralph.baldwin.cx>
In-Reply-To: <CAJ-VmonkrbMxHujd%2BbL0GNYJy2UGgZ-LF%2BGt-___mmQAbqU_bw@mail.gmail.com>
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On Friday, March 06, 2015 03:45:13 PM Adrian Chadd wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> Hm, I looked at this:
> 
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bonnell_%28microarchitecture%29
> 
> .. and thought it was old-school HTT. If it's not old-school HTT then cool.

It is not.  The SDM manuals explicitly differentiate Atom CPUs from Pentium 4
when talking about HTT (oddly they don't really mention Core-based CPUs I
believe because new HTT first showed up in Atoms and they never bothered to
update that part of the SDM?).

-- 
John Baldwin



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