Chapter 39. Hyper-Threading
The Previous Chapter
This chapter provided a detailed description of the Pentium® 4 processor core. This included:
The Big Picture.
The Front-End Pipeline Stages.
Intro to the μop Pipeline.
The μop Pipeline's Major Elements.
Additional, Core-Specific Terms.
This Chapter
This chapter provides a detailed description of Hyper-Threading and includes:
Multithreading Overview.
How Threads Are Assigned in an SMP System.
CMP Is Another Solution.
Traditional Single-Processor Multithreading.
Detecting HT Capability.
Enabling/Disabling HT.
Each Logical Processor Has Its Own Local APIC.
HT Processor Resource Types.
The HT States.
Processor Enumeration.
OS Support for HT.
Overview of HT Resource Usage.
HT and the Data TLB.
HT and the FSB.
The IOQ ...
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