The rest of the 6.6 merge window
The rest of the 6.6 merge window
Posted Sep 18, 2023 2:04 UTC (Mon) by mpee (guest, #37530)Parent article: The rest of the 6.6 merge window
PowerPC has supported enabling/disabling SMT threads at runtime more or less forever, by hot(un)plugging the SMT threads using the sysfs CPU hotplug API.
What's new is it can now be controlled through the /sys/devices/system/cpu/smt/control API, which is simpler to use, and is also common with x86.
