From owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Nov 3 22:31:46 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 163D616A4CE for ; Mon, 3 Nov 2003 22:31:46 -0800 (PST) Received: from farpoint.tear.com (adsl-63-194-88-247.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net [63.194.88.247]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 37B1243FCB for ; Mon, 3 Nov 2003 22:31:45 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bsdhw@tear.com) Received: from tear.com (dhcp-101.tear.com [172.16.0.101]) by farpoint.tear.com (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id hA46ViNn000817 for ; Mon, 3 Nov 2003 22:31:44 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bsdhw@tear.com) Message-ID: <3FA747CE.2010507@tear.com> Date: Mon, 03 Nov 2003 22:31:42 -0800 From: Marc User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.2.1) Gecko/20030225 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Status: No, hits=1.1 required=5.0 tests=UPPERCASE_25_50,USER_AGENT_MOZILLA_UA,X_ACCEPT_LANG version=2.55 X-Spam-Level: * X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.55 (1.174.2.19-2003-05-19-exp) Subject: Hyperthreading X-BeenThere: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: General discussion of FreeBSD hardware List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 04 Nov 2003 06:31:46 -0000 I am setting up a 5.1 system with a single P4 3 GHz HT CPU. Do I need an SMP kernel to take advantage of hyper threading? >From dmesg: CPU: Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 3.00GHz (2994.90-MHz 686-class CPU) Origin = "GenuineIntel" Id = 0xf29 Stepping = 9 Features=0xbfebfbff Hyperthreading: 2 logical CPUs Thanks, Marc