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From: Felipe Alfaro Solana <felipe.alfaro@gmail.com>
To: Linda Luu <linda.luu@comcast.net>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, "Nguyen,
	Nguyen (Home)" <ndnguyen3@comcast.net>
Subject: Re: Multi-core, Vanderpool support?
Date: Tue, 19 Apr 2005 12:13:19 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <6f6293f105041903134025da80@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <004901c541d9$16b18ad0$6501a8c0@Jaguar>

On 4/15/05, Linda Luu <linda.luu@comcast.net> wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> Does anyone happen to know how the upcoming multi-core CPU will be handled
> by the kernel?  Does it see each core as a physical or logical CPU or ?

Can't answer this, but I guess each core will be seen as a physical
CPU as they are real CPU cores, not just logical CPUs as with
multithreading.
 
> Vanderpool is a hardware support for OS virtualization (running multiple OS
> "at the same time"), how does Linux kernel make use of this, particularly
> which part of the kernel code?

At least, Xen will make great use of Vanderpool (VT) for
virtualization purpouses.

      parent reply	other threads:[~2005-04-19 10:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-04-15 16:35 Multi-core, Vanderpool support? Linda Luu
2005-04-15 18:00 ` Chris Wright
2005-04-19 10:13 ` Felipe Alfaro Solana [this message]

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