Re: Multi-core, Vanderpool support?

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On 4/15/05, Linda Luu <[email protected]> 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.
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