On Mon, 17 Dec 2018, Barry Kauler wrote: > Thanks for the response. > So I guess it comes down to basic philosophy: > > "SMT is a distinct feature, separate from SMP, and I think that it is > important to keep that distinction." > > You guys have chosen to remove that distinction, and to remove the > choice for many specialised, such as embedded, situations, where they > would maybe want that choice. They have that choice. SMT can be disabled on kernel cmdline, and in many cases also in BIOS. -- Jiri Kosina SUSE Labs