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From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
To: Barry Kauler <bkauler@gmail.com>
Cc: Jiri Kosina <jikos@kernel.org>, Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>,
	Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
	Tom Lendacky <thomas.lendacky@amd.com>,
	Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>,
	Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>,
	David Woodhouse <dwmw@amazon.co.uk>,
	Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com>,
	Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com>,
	Casey Schaufler <casey.schaufler@intel.com>,
	Asit Mallick <asit.k.mallick@intel.com>,
	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>,
	Jon Masters <jcm@redhat.com>, Waiman Long <longman9394@gmail.com>,
	Dave Stewart <david.c.stewart@intel.com>,
	Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>,
	stable@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: SCHEDL_SMT forced on!
Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2018 09:36:06 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20181217082837.GA27095@worktop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CABWT5yiDwckJ267+H3894svQyaYjGmcf94X2gvgzu-kz9rERjw@mail.gmail.com>

On Mon, Dec 17, 2018 at 05:58:11AM +0800, Barry Kauler wrote:
> 
> "SMT is a distinct feature, separate from SMP, and I think that it is
> important to keep that distinction."

Note that building a kernel without CONFIG_SCHED_SMT does _NOT_ disable
SMT. All it accomplishes is that the scheduler will not be SMT aware and
consider each SMT-sibling as a fully independent CPU.

      parent reply	other threads:[~2018-12-17  8:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-12-16  6:21 SCHEDL_SMT forced on! Barry Kauler
2018-12-16  8:27 ` Greg KH
2018-12-16 17:39   ` Andi Kleen
2018-12-16 21:29     ` Barry Kauler
2018-12-16 21:37       ` Jiri Kosina
2018-12-16 21:58         ` Barry Kauler
2018-12-16 22:01           ` Jiri Kosina
2018-12-16 22:12             ` Jiri Kosina
2018-12-16 22:26               ` Barry Kauler
2018-12-16 22:13             ` Barry Kauler
2018-12-16 22:17               ` Jiri Kosina
2018-12-16 22:31             ` Arjan van de Ven
2018-12-17  8:36           ` Peter Zijlstra [this message]

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