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2.\" Steve Passe <fsmp@FreeBSD.org>. All rights reserved.
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1.\" Copyright (c) 1997
2.\" Steve Passe <fsmp@FreeBSD.org>. All rights reserved.
3.\"
4.\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without
5.\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions
6.\" are met:
7.\" 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright
8.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer.

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24.\" $FreeBSD: head/share/man/man4/smp.4 225775 2011-09-27 07:00:24Z gabor $
24.\" $FreeBSD: head/share/man/man4/smp.4 233648 2012-03-29 05:02:12Z eadler $
25.\"
26.Dd May 7, 2008
27.Dt SMP 4
28.Os
29.Sh NAME
30.Nm SMP
31.Nd description of the FreeBSD Symmetric Multi-Processor kernel
32.Sh SYNOPSIS

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118This information is used internally by the kernel to schedule related
119tasks on CPUs that are closely grouped together.
120.Pp
121.Fx
122supports hyperthreading on Intel CPU's on the i386 and AMD64 platforms.
123Because using logical CPUs can cause performance penalties under certain loads,
124the logical CPUs can be disabled by setting the
125.Va machdep.hyperthreading_allowed
25.\"
26.Dd May 7, 2008
27.Dt SMP 4
28.Os
29.Sh NAME
30.Nm SMP
31.Nd description of the FreeBSD Symmetric Multi-Processor kernel
32.Sh SYNOPSIS

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118This information is used internally by the kernel to schedule related
119tasks on CPUs that are closely grouped together.
120.Pp
121.Fx
122supports hyperthreading on Intel CPU's on the i386 and AMD64 platforms.
123Because using logical CPUs can cause performance penalties under certain loads,
124the logical CPUs can be disabled by setting the
125.Va machdep.hyperthreading_allowed
126tunable to zero.
126tunable to zero.
127.Sh SEE ALSO
128.Xr cpuset 1 ,
129.Xr mptable 1 ,
130.Xr sched_4bsd 4 ,
131.Xr sched_ule 4 ,
132.Xr loader 8 ,
133.Xr sysctl 8 ,
134.Xr condvar 9 ,

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127.Sh SEE ALSO
128.Xr cpuset 1 ,
129.Xr mptable 1 ,
130.Xr sched_4bsd 4 ,
131.Xr sched_ule 4 ,
132.Xr loader 8 ,
133.Xr sysctl 8 ,
134.Xr condvar 9 ,

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