Roger Pau Monne writes ("Re: [PATCH OSSTEST 1/2] exanime: test for SMT and add
a host flag"):
> If OTOH we don't want to be that fine grained I think
> hw-{smt,iommu,vmx,...} would also be fine.
>
> Not sure whether this has helped much. I guess my vote would be for
> cpu-smt namespace.Let's go with hw-*. That will avoid chopping logic over the precise nature of hardware features, especially ones which have elements in multiple components. Thanks, Ian.
