[issue1486] Interrupt storm related to SATA DVD device

[Francois Tigeot]

On Sat, Sep 05, 2009 at 02:35:33AM +1000, elekktretterr at exemail.com.au wrote:
> Just looking at the dmesg, 16 cores? I thought those 1RU things can only
> fit 2xquad core xeons?
> 
> > Verbose dmesg is available at
> > http://leaf.dragonflybsd.org/~hasso/DL360-verbose-dmesg.txt

These are Nehalem CPUs. They are quad-core, but with 2-way SMT.
4 cores, 2 threads per core => 8 virtual cores per socket.

http://www.behardware.com/articles/733-2/report-intel-nehalem-architecture.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simultaneous_multithreading

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Francois Tigeot