SMP on x86: Difference between revisions

 
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** Found on (all) i7's, [http://www.intel.com/technology/atom/microarchitecture.htm some Atoms], and some P4's and Core2Duo's (especially those with Xeon branding).
** Found on (all) i7's, [http://www.intel.com/technology/atom/microarchitecture.htm some Atoms], and some P4's and Core2Duo's (especially those with Xeon branding).
** Pentium-M and Celerons usually lack SMT.
** Pentium-M and Celerons usually lack SMT.
* Resources are either split or shared between logical cores:
* Unduplicated resources are either split or shared between logical cores:
** Shared: reservation stations, data caches
** Shared: reservation stations, data caches
** Split: reorder buffers, load/store buffers
** Split: reorder buffers, load/store buffers
** Duplicated: registers
* No programmable priority control exported, no implicit priorities defined


==Intel MP IDs==
==Intel MP IDs==
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* "[http://software.intel.com/en-us/articles/multi-core-detect/ Detecting Multicore Processors]", Intel Software Network
* "[http://software.intel.com/en-us/articles/multi-core-detect/ Detecting Multicore Processors]", Intel Software Network
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