Arjan van de Ven wrote:
the good news is that all hotplugable x86 cpus will have HT or dual core support.. so you always work in pairs of 2
While there are good arguments for a pure SMP hardware world, there are good arguments in the virtualization world for virtual uniprocessors. No one can be sure which combination of HT / polycore / package isolation we will end up with, but we can be sure that legacy systems will be around for longer than anyone wants to think about. As this CR4 valid on 486s patch proves :)
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