Intel P4 and HT

"Craig Hammond" <[email protected]> Thu, 21 Nov 2002 13:01:14 +1100
Newsgroups gmane.os.openbsd.smp
Message-ID <7B8AB2873B3E464790B2BFD3C6E5304003C8B2@sbserver.sbisolutions.com.au>
Hello..

With the new Intel P4 with Hyper Threading needing an SMP OS (amongst
other things) to take advantage of the "hyper threading", is that going
to raise the priority of SMP with the OBSD developers?? I would have
thought that with the release of this CPU, the fact the OBSD doesn't
support SMP would put it at a distinct disadvantage to some of the other
OSes out there in terms of performance.

Please don't take this as flame bait.
I'm not trying to say "hurry up and get SMP working". I have no need to
run OBSD on a 3 ghz processor anyway.

I am simply just curious about it...