Can I activate hyperthreading without an SMP kernel on Red Hat Enterprise Linux?

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Hyper-threading is a technology developed by Intel® which allows a single physical processor to perform roughly twice the number of compute tasks as was possible prior to this invention. It effectively turns a single physical CPU into two "virtual" CPU's; Red Hat Enterprise Linux operating systems recognize a hyper-threading processor as two separate processors and hence requires an SMP kerne...

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