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Re: [Xen-users] SMP and CPU hyperthreading

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Subject: Re: [Xen-users] SMP and CPU hyperthreading
From: "Lars E. D. Jensen | DCmedia" <ledj@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 19 Apr 2005 22:36:05 +0200
Cc: Mark Williamson <mark.williamson@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
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> Sorry, I didn't express that clearly.  Let me put it another way: in
> -stable you can't give more than one hyperthread to a domain but you *can*
> have more than one domain per hyperthread.
>
> The configuration you suggest above won't work because you can only give
> one logical processor to a domain.
>
> If you want to run two domains on hyperthreads on the same CPU, you can
> assign one of them cpu = 0 and the other one to cpu = 1.  The two domains
> will run simultaneously in threads on that physical CPU.  If you only want
> one domain at a time to run on the CPU, you should specify cpu = 0 in both
> config files. The same applies for the hyperthreads on your second CPU (but
> with cpu = 2 instead of 0 and cpu = 3 instead of 1).

Ok, thanks for a thorough explanation :)

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Med venlig hilsen / Best regards
Lars E. D. Jensen
ledj@xxxxxxxxxxx - http://dcmedia.biz

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