Nakajima, Jun wrote:
>No, the notion of "sibling" is not clear. The other day a person pointed out
>"the number of the siblings does not include yourself" when she saw the
>variable smp_num_siblings. So with HT enabled, for a cpu the number of the
>siblings should be 1, instead of 2, from an English language perspective.
>But we want to mean the number H/W threads in a processor package.
>
>And with multi-core, "sibling" is not clear enough to distiguish "core" in a
>processor package and "thread" in a "core".
>
>
That's fine. I can be convinced away from "sibling", I'll leave that up
to others. Personally I think I prefer "virtual core" over "sibling"
and "sub-core".
However, "thread" is the least clear of the proposed choices, and should
not be used. Anything-but-thread is my position :) Thread is used to
describe processes in Linux, those active in hardware and also those
sleeping in memory, etc.
Jeff
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