From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Fri, 25 Oct 2002 18:51:37 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Fri, 25 Oct 2002 18:51:37 -0400 Received: from parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk ([195.92.249.252]:529 "EHLO www.linux.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Fri, 25 Oct 2002 18:51:36 -0400 Message-ID: <3DB9CC5D.7000600@pobox.com> Date: Fri, 25 Oct 2002 18:57:33 -0400 From: Jeff Garzik User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20021003 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Nakajima, Jun" CC: Robert Love , Daniel Phillips , Alan Cox , "'Dave Jones'" , "'akpm@digeo.com'" , "'linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org'" , "'chrisl@vmware.com'" , "'Martin J. Bligh'" Subject: Re: [PATCH] hyper-threading information in /proc/cpuinfo References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Nakajima, Jun wrote: >The notion of "SMT (Simultaneous Multi-Threaded)" architecture has been >there for a while (at least 8 years, as far as I know). You would get tons >of info if you search it in Internet. > > Certainly. That however does not imply that Robert's patch should read "number of threads" instead of "number of siblings." The lone word "thread" does not automatically imply "active thread running on this virtual processor" or anything close to that. "sibling" makes a lot more sense from an English language perspective. Jeff