Giulio, On Fri, 16 Feb 2007 21:59:50 +0100, Giulio Orsero wrote: > On 2/16/07, Jean Delvare <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Processor Information > > (...) > > Core Count: 2 > > Core Enabled: 2 > > Thread Count: 2 > > > > Of course dmidecode can only display the information if the BIOS has > > filled these fields in the first place, which means that the BIOS must > > What's "thread count"? > > I mean, the above is 1 CPU with 2 cores and then HT?
About the thread count, the SMBIOS specification says: "It is a processor-wide count, not a thread-per-core count." Please refer to section 3.3.5.8 of the SMBIOS 2.5 specification for additional details. So the above is a dual-core CPU, which supports two threads (one thread per core.) > So, If running a linux kernel with smp and all stuff enabled, will I > see 2 CPUs (2 cores) or 4 (2 cores X 2 HT)? What _you_ will see depends on your hardware. Just give a try to dmidecode CVS on your hardware if you want to know. If you refer to the output I quoted above, /proc/cpuinfo would include two entries for that CPU (one per thread.) Hope that helps, -- Jean Delvare _______________________________________________ http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/dmidecode-devel
