CPU Features 3.4

Question 1

What does SMT / Hyper-Threading do?

Answer 1

Allows a single CPU core to process multiple threads simultaneously.

Question 2

SMT / Hyper-Threading was created to solve what limitation?

Answer 2

Software could only send a single stream of instructions to the processor.

Question 3

What does SMT stand for?

Answer 3

Simultaneous Multithreading

Question 4

What does SMP stand for?

Answer 4

Symmetric Multiprocessing

Question 5

What is Symmetric Multiprocessing (SMP)?

Answer 5

A system where multiple physical CPUs share the same memory and workload equally, commonly used in servers and workstations.

Question 6

What are Multi-core processors?

Answer 6

Single CPU with multiple processors inside

Question 7

What is VT and AMD-V

Answer 7

VT (Intel) and AMD-V (AMD) are CPU features/ processor extensions, their job is to support virtualization

Question 8

What virtualization is?

Answer 8

Virtualization allows running multiple operating systems on a single physical computer at the same time

Question 9

What does SLAT stand for?

Answer 9

Second Level Address Translation

Question 10

What is the purpose of SLAT?

Answer 10

To improve virtualization performance by helping the CPU manage memory more efficiently for virtual machines.

Question 11

What is Intel’s SLAT hardware support called?

Answer 11

EPT

Question 12

What is AMD’s SLAT hardware support called?

Answer 12

RVI

Question 13

What does EPT stands for?

Answer 13

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