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    <title>topic Re: R80.x Performance Tuning Tip – SMT (Hyper Threading) in General Topics</title>
    <link>https://community.checkpoint.com/t5/General-Topics/R80-x-Performance-Tuning-Tip-SMT-Hyper-Threading/m-p/41649#M8741</link>
    <description>&lt;HTML&gt;&lt;HEAD&gt;&lt;/HEAD&gt;&lt;BODY&gt;&lt;P&gt;Great informations &lt;A _jive_internal="true" class="" data-containerid="-1" data-containertype="-1" data-objectid="41625" data-objecttype="3" href="https://community.checkpoint.com/people/d401179d-0d5b-369d-a0f2-387c3ef54533"&gt;Timothy,&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;Regards&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;Heiko&lt;/P&gt;&lt;/BODY&gt;&lt;/HTML&gt;</description>
    <pubDate>Sat, 09 Mar 2019 20:17:27 GMT</pubDate>
    <dc:creator>HeikoAnkenbrand</dc:creator>
    <dc:date>2019-03-09T20:17:27Z</dc:date>
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      <title>R80.x Performance Tuning Tip – SMT (Hyper Threading)</title>
      <link>https://community.checkpoint.com/t5/General-Topics/R80-x-Performance-Tuning-Tip-SMT-Hyper-Threading/m-p/41621#M8713</link>
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&lt;TH align="left"&gt;&lt;FONT size="4" color="#ffffff"&gt;SMT (Hyper Threading)&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/TH&gt;
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&lt;P&gt;&lt;IMG class="image-1 jive-image" src="https://community.checkpoint.com/legacyfs/online/checkpoint/73835_pastedImage_1.png" border="0" width="253" height="143" /&gt;&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;Hyper Threading Technology is a form of Simultaneous Multithreading Technology (SMT) introduced by Intel. Architecturally, a processor with Hyper-Threading technology consists of two logical processors per core, each of which has its own processor architectural state.Each logical processor can be individually halted, interrupted or directed to execute a specified thread, independently from the other logical processor sharing the same physical core. Unlike a traditional dual-processor configuration that uses two separate physical processors, the logical processors in a hyper-threaded core share the execution resources. These resources include the execution engine, caches, and system bus interface; the sharing of resources allows two logical processors to work with each other more efficiently, and allows a logical processor to borrow resources from a stalled logical core (assuming both logical cores are associated with the same physical core).&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;A processor stalls when it is waiting for data it has sent for so it can finish processing the present thread. The degree of benefit seen when using a hyper-threaded or multi core processor depends on the needs of the software, and how well it and the firewall.&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;Hyper-Threading works by duplicating certain sections of the processor - those that store the architectural state - but not duplicating the main execution resources. This allows a hyper-threading processor to appear as the usual "physical" processor and an extra "logical" processor to the firewall.&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;The number of concurrent threads can be decided by the chip designers. Two concurrent threads per CPU core are common. Because it is really an efficiency technique that inevitably increases conflict on shared resources, measuring or agreeing on its effectiveness can be difficult.&lt;/P&gt;
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&lt;TH align="left"&gt;&lt;FONT size="4" color="#ffffff"&gt;Chapter&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/TH&gt;
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&lt;P&gt;&lt;STRONG&gt;More interesting articles:&lt;/STRONG&gt;&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;&lt;A href="https://community.checkpoint.com/t5/General-Topics/R80-x-Architecture-and-Performance-Tuning-Link-Collection/m-p/47883#M9336" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-objecttype="102"&gt;- R80.x Architecture and Performance Tuning - Link Collection&lt;/A&gt;&lt;BR /&gt;&lt;A href="http://cp.ankenbrand24.de" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow noopener noreferrer noopener noreferrer noopener noreferrer"&gt;- Article list (Heiko Ankenbrand)&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/P&gt;
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&lt;TH align="left"&gt;&lt;FONT size="4" color="#ffffff"&gt;Preview to Intel Architecture&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/TH&gt;
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&lt;P&gt;The following statement is also often discussed on the Internet:&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;SMT can increase message rate for multi process applications by having more logical cores. This increases the latency of a single process due to lower frequency of a single logical core when hyper-threading is enabled. This means interrupt processing of the NICs will be slower, load will be higher and packet rate will decrease. I think that's why Check Point doesn't recommend SMT in pure firewall and VPN mode. From my point of view, it only accelerates software balades. Therefore I use it if necessary, if many blades are activated. I'd like to discuss that with Check Point.&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;Small example with basic viewing:&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;&lt;IMG class="image-11 jive-image" src="https://community.checkpoint.com/legacyfs/online/checkpoint/73979_pastedImage_1.png" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;This presentation is very simplified and should illustrate the issues. If SMT channel 2 uses all core resources with I/O operations, channel 1 must wait for the core resources. This can reduce the performance with enabled SMT. The same effect can occur with multi-queue and enabled SMT. The problem can be fixed by adjusting the Check Point affinity or disable SMT. What we see here, many Intel architecture issues can affect SMT and therefore the firewall performance.&lt;/P&gt;
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&lt;TH align="left"&gt;&lt;FONT size="4" color="#ffffff"&gt;Check Point and SMT&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/TH&gt;
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&lt;P&gt;SMT is a feature that is supported on Check Point appliances running Gaia OS. When enabled, SMT doubles the number of logical CPUs on the security gateway, which enhances physical processor utilization. When SMT is disabled, the number of logical CPUs equals the number of physical cores. SMT improves performance up to 30% on software blades such as IPS, Application &amp;amp; URL Filtering and Threat Prevention by increasing the number of CoreXL FW instances based on the number of logical CPUs.&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;Turning on SMT can have some side effects in terms of multi-queue and affinity. After turning on SMT the affinity should normally be adjusted.&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;There are also some cases in which SMT should &lt;STRONG&gt;not&lt;/STRONG&gt; be used:&lt;/P&gt;
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&lt;LI style="text-indent: -18.0pt;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; if only firewall/VPN blades are used&lt;/LI&gt;
&lt;LI style="text-indent: -18.0pt;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; if these blades are enabled:
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&lt;LI&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; DLP&lt;/LI&gt;
&lt;LI&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; Anti Virus&lt;/LI&gt;
&lt;/UL&gt;
&lt;/LI&gt;
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&lt;UL&gt;
&lt;LI style="text-indent: -18.0pt;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; if these features are enabled
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&lt;LI&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; Using services with resources in firewall policy&lt;/LI&gt;
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&lt;LI style="text-indent: -18.0pt;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; use hide NAT extensively -&amp;gt; Refer to &lt;A href="https://supportcenter.checkpoint.com/supportcenter/portal?eventSubmit_doGoviewsolutiondetails=&amp;amp;solutionid=sk88160" target="_blank" rel="noopener"&gt;sk88160 - Dynamic NAT port allocation feature&lt;/A&gt;&amp;nbsp;to mitigate this limitation.&lt;/LI&gt;
&lt;LI style="text-indent: -18.0pt;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; more see &lt;A class="link-titled" title="https://supportcenter.checkpoint.com/supportcenter/portal?eventSubmit_doGoviewsolutiondetails=&amp;amp;solutionid=sk93000&amp;amp;partition=General&amp;amp;product=Enterprise" href="https://supportcenter.checkpoint.com/supportcenter/portal?eventSubmit_doGoviewsolutiondetails=&amp;amp;solutionid=sk93000&amp;amp;partition=General&amp;amp;product=Enterprise" target="_blank" rel="noopener"&gt;SK93000&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/LI&gt;
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&lt;P&gt;Following information must also be observed before turning on SMT:&lt;/P&gt;
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&lt;LI style="text-indent: -18.0pt;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; Changing SMT state requires reboot.&lt;/LI&gt;
&lt;LI&gt;&amp;nbsp; For supported appliance refer to "Supported Appliances".&lt;/LI&gt;
&lt;LI style="text-indent: -18.0pt;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; If you have two ports on any of the aforementioned appliances to handle most of the traffic, it is recommended to enable the multi-queue feature to increase SMT performance.&lt;/LI&gt;
&lt;LI style="text-indent: -18.0pt;"&gt;&lt;STRONG&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/STRONG&gt; For R77.30 versions only!&lt;BR /&gt;&amp;nbsp; If the VPN blade is enabled and a significant amount of IPSec VPN traffic passes through the security gateway, then follow the steps in &lt;A title="https://supportcenter.checkpoint.com/supportcenter/portal?eventSubmit_doGoviewsolutiondetails=&amp;amp;solutionid=sk93000&amp;amp;partition=General&amp;amp;product=Enterprise" href="https://supportcenter.checkpoint.com/supportcenter/portal?eventSubmit_doGoviewsolutiondetails=&amp;amp;solutionid=sk93000&amp;amp;partition=General&amp;amp;product=Enterprise" target="_blank" rel="noopener"&gt;SK93000&lt;/A&gt;.&lt;/LI&gt;
&lt;LI style="text-indent: -18.0pt;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; For the best performance, it is recommended that user space processes not be affined to the same physical CPU core as the secure network distributors (SNDs), but rather that they be&amp;nbsp;&lt;BR /&gt;&amp;nbsp; affined to the firewall workers CPUs (more see &lt;A title="https://supportcenter.checkpoint.com/supportcenter/portal?eventSubmit_doGoviewsolutiondetails=&amp;amp;solutionid=sk93000&amp;amp;partition=General&amp;amp;product=Enterprise" href="https://supportcenter.checkpoint.com/supportcenter/portal?eventSubmit_doGoviewsolutiondetails=&amp;amp;solutionid=sk93000&amp;amp;partition=General&amp;amp;product=Enterprise" target="_blank" rel="noopener"&gt;SK93000&lt;/A&gt;, &lt;A class="link-titled" title="https://supportcenter.checkpoint.com/supportcenter/portal?eventSubmit_doGoviewsolutiondetails=&amp;amp;solutionid=sk98737&amp;amp;partition=Advanced&amp;amp;product=CoreXL%22" href="https://supportcenter.checkpoint.com/supportcenter/portal?eventSubmit_doGoviewsolutiondetails=&amp;amp;solutionid=sk98737&amp;amp;partition=Advanced&amp;amp;product=CoreXL%22" target="_blank" rel="noopener"&gt;SK98737&lt;/A&gt;).&lt;/LI&gt;
&lt;LI style="text-indent: -18.0pt;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; If necessary, the affine has to be adjusted here (more see &lt;A title="https://supportcenter.checkpoint.com/supportcenter/portal?eventSubmit_doGoviewsolutiondetails=&amp;amp;solutionid=sk93000&amp;amp;partition=General&amp;amp;product=Enterprise" href="https://supportcenter.checkpoint.com/supportcenter/portal?eventSubmit_doGoviewsolutiondetails=&amp;amp;solutionid=sk93000&amp;amp;partition=General&amp;amp;product=Enterprise" target="_blank" rel="noopener"&gt;SK93000&lt;/A&gt;).&lt;/LI&gt;
&lt;LI style="text-indent: -18.0pt;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; Enabling SMT will load additional CoreXL FW instances. These instances consume memory and the maximal connection capacity may decrease by up to 10%.&lt;BR /&gt;&amp;nbsp;(info from Check Point &lt;A href="https://community.checkpoint.com/migrated-users/5015" target="_blank" rel="noopener"&gt;Ofir S.&lt;/A&gt; )&lt;/LI&gt;
&lt;LI style="text-indent: -18.0pt;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; more limitations see &lt;A title="https://supportcenter.checkpoint.com/supportcenter/portal?eventSubmit_doGoviewsolutiondetails=&amp;amp;solutionid=sk93000&amp;amp;partition=General&amp;amp;product=Enterprise" href="https://supportcenter.checkpoint.com/supportcenter/portal?eventSubmit_doGoviewsolutiondetails=&amp;amp;solutionid=sk93000&amp;amp;partition=General&amp;amp;product=Enterprise" target="_blank" rel="noopener"&gt;SK93000&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/LI&gt;
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&lt;P&gt;Supported configurations for SMT:&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;UL&gt;
&lt;LI&gt;&lt;SPAN style="font-size: 11.0pt;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/SPAN&gt; &lt;SPAN style="font-size: 11.0pt;"&gt;only on &lt;STRONG&gt;Check Point appliances&lt;/STRONG&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/LI&gt;
&lt;LI&gt;&lt;SPAN style="font-size: 11.0pt;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/SPAN&gt; &lt;SPAN style="font-size: 11.0pt;"&gt;only on security gateways running &lt;STRONG&gt;Gaia OS with 64-bit kernel&lt;/STRONG&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/LI&gt;
&lt;LI&gt;&lt;SPAN style="font-size: 11.0pt;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/SPAN&gt; &lt;SPAN style="font-size: 11.0pt;"&gt;supported for &lt;STRONG&gt;R77 release and later&lt;/STRONG&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;SPAN style="font-size: 11.0pt;"&gt;&lt;BR /&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/LI&gt;
&lt;LI&gt;&lt;SPAN style="font-size: 11.0pt;"&gt;SMT (HT) on &lt;STRONG&gt;open servers&lt;/STRONG&gt; beginning from &lt;STRONG&gt;R80.40&lt;/STRONG&gt; with kernel 3.10 &lt;BR /&gt;(Reference :&amp;nbsp;&lt;A class="page-link lia-link-navigation lia-custom-event" href="https://community.checkpoint.com/t5/Enterprise-Appliances-and-Gaia/Does-R80-40-support-HP-DL380-G10/td-p/74920/jump-to/first-unread-message" target="_blank" rel="noopener"&gt;Does R80.40 support HP DL380 G10)&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/LI&gt;
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&lt;P&gt;&lt;SPAN style="font-size: 11.0pt;"&gt;New with 3.10 kernel (R80.20, R80.30, R80.40):&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;&lt;SPAN style="font-size: 11.0pt;"&gt;With new kernel 3.10 for R80.20 ,R80.30 and R80.40 Check Point aligned with the industry and now HT is set and controlled by the BIOS. Therefore R80.20 and above Security Management, R80.20 and above Security Gateway with 3.10 kernel and next versions will have SMT on by default provided that the BIOS has it enabled.&lt;BR /&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;&lt;SPAN style="color: #00ccff;"&gt;&lt;STRONG&gt;Tip!&lt;/STRONG&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;&lt;SPAN style="color: #000000;"&gt;On some open servers SMT (HT) must be &lt;STRONG&gt;disabled in the BIOS&lt;/STRONG&gt; for the gateway installation. This is documented in the HCL for Server see link &lt;A class="link-titled" title="https://www.checkpoint.com/support-services/hcl/" href="https://www.checkpoint.com/support-services/hcl/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"&gt;HCL&lt;/A&gt;.&lt;BR /&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;&lt;SPAN style="color: #000000;"&gt;For example for "HP ProLitan DL360 Gen9" refert to SK &lt;A class="link-titled" title="https://supportcenter.checkpoint.com/supportcenter/portal?eventSubmit_doGoviewsolutiondetails=&amp;amp;solutionid=sk108200&amp;amp;partition=General&amp;amp;product=Security" href="https://supportcenter.checkpoint.com/supportcenter/portal?eventSubmit_doGoviewsolutiondetails=&amp;amp;solutionid=sk108200&amp;amp;partition=General&amp;amp;product=Security" target="_blank" rel="noopener"&gt;Required steps before installing Gaia OS on HP ProLiant Gen9 servers&lt;/A&gt;.&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/P&gt;
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&lt;TH align="left"&gt;&lt;FONT size="4" color="#ffffff"&gt;Supported Appliances&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/TH&gt;
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&lt;P&gt;&lt;SPAN style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #3d3d3d; font-size: 14px;"&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;SPAN style="color: #ff0000;"&gt;&lt;STRONG&gt;Attention!&lt;/STRONG&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;SMT is supported only on following Check Point appliances &lt;STRONG&gt;not on Open Server R80.10 - R80.30&lt;/STRONG&gt;. &lt;SPAN style="font-size: 11.0pt;"&gt;SMT on &lt;STRONG&gt;open servers&lt;/STRONG&gt; beginning from &lt;STRONG&gt;R80.40&lt;/STRONG&gt; with kernel 3.10. &lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/P&gt;
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&lt;TH style="width: 10%; height: 25px;"&gt;Appliance&lt;/TH&gt;
&lt;TH style="width: 87%; height: 25px;"&gt;Comment&lt;/TH&gt;
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&lt;TD style="width: 10%; height: 114px;"&gt;
&lt;P&gt;3100&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;3200&lt;/P&gt;
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&lt;TD style="width: 87%; height: 114px;"&gt;No hardware support for SMT.&lt;/TD&gt;
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&lt;TD style="width: 10%; height: 114px;"&gt;
&lt;P&gt;5100&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;5200&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;5400&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;5600&lt;/P&gt;
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&lt;TD style="width: 87%; height: 114px;"&gt;No hardware support for SMT.&lt;/TD&gt;
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&lt;TD style="width: 10%; height: 114px;"&gt;5800&lt;BR /&gt;5900&lt;/TD&gt;
&lt;TD style="width: 87%; height: 114px;"&gt;
&lt;P&gt;Is already shipped with enabled SMT feature in the BIOS.&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;SMT is recommended with all blades.&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;OL&gt;
&lt;LI&gt;Installation of the hotfix from&lt;SPAN&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;A href="https://supportcenter.checkpoint.com/supportcenter/portal?eventSubmit_doGoviewsolutiondetails=&amp;amp;solutionid=sk109772" target="_blank" rel="noopener"&gt;sk109772 - R77.30 NGTP, NGTX and HTTPS Inspection performance and memory consumption optimization&lt;/A&gt;.&lt;/LI&gt;
&lt;LI&gt;Enabling of SMT feature in '&lt;CODE&gt;cpconfig&lt;/CODE&gt;' (refer to "Enable SMT" section).&lt;/LI&gt;
&lt;/OL&gt;
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&lt;TD style="width: 10%; height: 140px;"&gt;12400&lt;/TD&gt;
&lt;TD style="width: 87%; height: 140px;"&gt;Requires 8 GB of RAM.&lt;BR /&gt;Refer to these solutions:&lt;BR /&gt;
&lt;UL&gt;
&lt;LI&gt;&lt;A href="https://supportcenter.checkpoint.com/supportcenter/portal?eventSubmit_doGoviewsolutiondetails=&amp;amp;solutionid=sk68700" target="_blank" rel="noopener"&gt;sk68700&lt;/A&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/SPAN&gt;for instructions for "12400 Appliance Installing and Removing Memory"&lt;/LI&gt;
&lt;LI&gt;&lt;A href="https://supportcenter.checkpoint.com/supportcenter/portal?eventSubmit_doGoviewsolutiondetails=&amp;amp;solutionid=sk71001" target="_blank" rel="noopener"&gt;sk71001&lt;/A&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/SPAN&gt;for instructions on how to upgrade to 64-bit Gaia computers&lt;/LI&gt;
&lt;/UL&gt;
Requires enabling of SMT feature both in the BIOS &lt;SPAN style="color: #ff00ff; font-size: 13px;"&gt;&lt;STRONG&gt;(1)&lt;/STRONG&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt; and in '&lt;CODE&gt;cpconfig&lt;/CODE&gt;' (refer to "Enable SMT" section).&lt;/TD&gt;
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&lt;TD style="width: 10%; height: 27px;"&gt;12600&lt;/TD&gt;
&lt;TD style="width: 87%; height: 27px;"&gt;Requires enabling of SMT feature both in the BIOS &lt;SPAN style="color: #ff00ff; font-size: 13px;"&gt;&lt;STRONG&gt;(1)&lt;/STRONG&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt; and in '&lt;CODE&gt;cpconfig&lt;/CODE&gt;' (refer to "Enable SMT" section).&lt;/TD&gt;
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&lt;TD style="width: 10%; height: 53px;"&gt;13500&lt;BR /&gt;13800&lt;/TD&gt;
&lt;TD style="width: 87%; height: 53px;"&gt;
&lt;P&gt;Is already shipped with enabled SMT feature in the BIOS.&lt;/P&gt;
Requires enabling of SMT feature only in '&lt;CODE&gt;cpconfig&lt;/CODE&gt;' (refer to "Enable SMT" section).&lt;/TD&gt;
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&lt;TD style="width: 10%; height: 114px;"&gt;15400&lt;BR /&gt;15600&lt;/TD&gt;
&lt;TD style="width: 87%; height: 114px;"&gt;
&lt;P&gt;Is already shipped with enabled SMT feature in the BIOS.&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;SMT is recommended with all blades.&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;OL&gt;
&lt;LI&gt;Installation of the hotfix from&lt;SPAN&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;A href="https://supportcenter.checkpoint.com/supportcenter/portal?eventSubmit_doGoviewsolutiondetails=&amp;amp;solutionid=sk109772" target="_blank" rel="noopener"&gt;sk109772 - R77.30 NGTP, NGTX and HTTPS Inspection performance and memory consumption optimization&lt;/A&gt;.&lt;/LI&gt;
&lt;LI&gt;Enabling of SMT feature in '&lt;CODE&gt;cpconfig&lt;/CODE&gt;' (refer to "Enable SMT" section).&lt;/LI&gt;
&lt;/OL&gt;
&lt;/TD&gt;
&lt;/TR&gt;
&lt;TR style="height: 77px;"&gt;
&lt;TD style="width: 10%; height: 77px;"&gt;21400&lt;BR /&gt;21600&lt;BR /&gt;21700&lt;/TD&gt;
&lt;TD style="width: 87%; height: 77px;"&gt;
&lt;P&gt;SAM Acceleration card is not supported with SMT&lt;/P&gt;
Requires enabling of SMT feature both in the BIOS &lt;SPAN style="color: #ff00ff; font-size: 13px;"&gt;&lt;STRONG&gt;(1)&lt;/STRONG&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt; and in '&lt;CODE&gt;cpconfig&lt;/CODE&gt;' (refer to "Enable SMT" section).&lt;/TD&gt;
&lt;/TR&gt;
&lt;TR style="height: 53px;"&gt;
&lt;TD style="width: 10%; height: 53px;"&gt;21800&lt;/TD&gt;
&lt;TD style="width: 87%; height: 53px;"&gt;
&lt;P&gt;Is already shipped with enabled SMT feature in the BIOS.&lt;/P&gt;
Requires enabling of SMT feature only in '&lt;CODE&gt;cpconfig&lt;/CODE&gt;' (refer to "Enable SMT" section).&lt;/TD&gt;
&lt;/TR&gt;
&lt;TR style="height: 114px;"&gt;
&lt;TD style="width: 10%; height: 114px;"&gt;23500&lt;BR /&gt;23800&lt;/TD&gt;
&lt;TD style="width: 87%; height: 114px;"&gt;
&lt;P&gt;Is already shipped with enabled SMT feature in the BIOS.&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;SMT is recommended with all blades.&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;OL&gt;
&lt;LI&gt;Installation of the hotfix from&amp;nbsp;&lt;A href="https://supportcenter.checkpoint.com/supportcenter/portal?eventSubmit_doGoviewsolutiondetails=&amp;amp;solutionid=sk109772" target="_blank" rel="noopener"&gt;sk109772 - R77.30 NGTP, NGTX and HTTPS Inspection performance and memory consumption optimization&lt;/A&gt;.&lt;/LI&gt;
&lt;LI&gt;Enabling of SMT feature in '&lt;CODE&gt;cpconfig&lt;/CODE&gt;' (refer to "Enable SMT" section).&lt;/LI&gt;
&lt;/OL&gt;
&lt;/TD&gt;
&lt;/TR&gt;
&lt;TR style="height: 35px;"&gt;
&lt;TD style="width: 10%; height: 35px;"&gt;23900&lt;/TD&gt;
&lt;TD style="width: 87%; height: 35px;"&gt;
&lt;P&gt;Hyper Threading is hard-coded to be disabled on R77.30 and R80.10, with no impact on performance&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;/TD&gt;
&lt;/TR&gt;
&lt;TR style="height: 79px;"&gt;
&lt;TD style="width: 10%; height: 79px;"&gt;TE250X&lt;BR /&gt;TE1000X&lt;BR /&gt;TE2000X&lt;/TD&gt;
&lt;TD style="width: 87%; height: 79px;"&gt;
&lt;P&gt;&lt;SPAN style="font-size: 15px;"&gt;Is already shipped with enabled SMT feature in the BIOS.&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;&lt;SPAN style="font-size: 15px;"&gt;Requires enabling of SMT feature only in '&lt;CODE&gt;cpconfig&lt;/CODE&gt;' (refer to "Enable SMT" section).&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;&lt;SPAN style="font-size: 15px;"&gt;On these appliances, SMT is recommended with all blades.&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;/TD&gt;
&lt;/TR&gt;
&lt;TR style="height: 79px;"&gt;
&lt;TD style="width: 10%; height: 79px;"&gt;
&lt;P&gt;40K&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;60K&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;/TD&gt;
&lt;TD style="width: 87%; height: 79px;"&gt;
&lt;P&gt;&lt;SPAN style="font-size: 15px;"&gt;SGM220&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; no SMT support&lt;BR /&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;&lt;SPAN style="font-size: 15px;"&gt;SGM200T&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; no SMT support&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;&lt;SPAN style="font-size: 15px;"&gt;SGM260&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; SMT support&amp;nbsp; (20 physical cores / 40 with enabled SMT)&lt;BR /&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;&lt;SPAN style="font-size: 15px;"&gt;SGM400&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; SMT support&amp;nbsp; (28 physical cores / 56 with enabled SMT)&lt;BR /&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;/TD&gt;
&lt;/TR&gt;
&lt;/TBODY&gt;
&lt;/TABLE&gt;
&lt;P&gt;&lt;STRONG&gt;&lt;SPAN style="color: #ff00ff; font-size: 13px;"&gt;(1)&lt;/SPAN&gt; Note&lt;/STRONG&gt;: To enable SMT in the BIOS,&amp;nbsp;&lt;A href="http://www.checkpoint.com/services/contact/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener"&gt;contact Check Point Support&lt;/A&gt;&amp;nbsp;or&amp;nbsp;&lt;A href="http://www.checkpoint.com/support-services/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener"&gt;contact Check Point Professional Services&lt;/A&gt;&amp;nbsp;to get confirmation and approval beforehand.&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;TABLE style="border: 1px solid #c6c6c6; border-collapse: separate; border-radius: 5px; background-color: #e15180; padding: 6px; text-indent: 10px;" width="100%"&gt;
&lt;THEAD&gt;
&lt;TR&gt;
&lt;TH align="left"&gt;&lt;FONT size="4" color="#ffffff"&gt;Check if SMT is activated&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/TH&gt;
&lt;/TR&gt;
&lt;/THEAD&gt;
&lt;/TABLE&gt;
&lt;P&gt;&lt;STRONG&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/STRONG&gt;Check if SMT is activated and check current SMT status on security gateway:&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;&lt;STRONG&gt;# cat /proc/smt_status&lt;/STRONG&gt;&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;Either SMT is not supported on this machine or SMT is disabled in the BIOS.&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;&lt;IMG class="image-2 jive-image" src="https://community.checkpoint.com/legacyfs/online/checkpoint/73836_pastedImage_19.png" border="0" width="483" height="38" /&gt;&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;SMT is enabled in the BIOS, but disabled in '&lt;SPAN style="font-size: 10.0pt;"&gt;cpconfig&lt;/SPAN&gt;'&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;&lt;IMG class="image-3 jive-image" src="https://community.checkpoint.com/legacyfs/online/checkpoint/73837_pastedImage_20.png" border="0" width="483" height="38" /&gt;&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;SMT is enabled in BIOS and in '&lt;SPAN style="font-size: 10.0pt;"&gt;cpconfig&lt;/SPAN&gt;'&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;&lt;IMG class="jive-image image-4" src="https://community.checkpoint.com/legacyfs/online/checkpoint/73838_pastedImage_21.png" border="0" width="476" height="37" /&gt;&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;If SMT is activated this command shows the nummbers of CPUs, cores and SMTs:&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;&lt;STRONG&gt;# grep -E "cpu cores|siblings|physical id" /proc/cpuinfo | xargs -n 11 echo |sort |uniq&lt;/STRONG&gt;&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;&lt;IMG class="jive-image image-10" src="https://community.checkpoint.com/legacyfs/online/checkpoint/73844_pastedImage_1.png" border="0" width="542" height="106" /&gt;&lt;/P&gt;
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&lt;THEAD&gt;
&lt;TR&gt;
&lt;TH align="left"&gt;&lt;FONT size="4" color="#ffffff"&gt;Enable SMT&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/TH&gt;
&lt;/TR&gt;
&lt;/THEAD&gt;
&lt;/TABLE&gt;
&lt;P&gt;1) Check the number of cores&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;# &lt;STRONG&gt;fw ctl multik stat&lt;BR /&gt;&lt;/STRONG&gt;&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;&lt;STRONG&gt;&lt;IMG class="image-5 jive-image" src="https://community.checkpoint.com/legacyfs/online/checkpoint/73839_pastedImage_44.png" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/STRONG&gt;&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;2) Check the number of cores in the gateway license.&lt;BR /&gt;# &lt;STRONG&gt;cplic print&lt;/STRONG&gt;&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;&lt;IMG class="image-6 jive-image" src="https://community.checkpoint.com/legacyfs/online/checkpoint/73840_pastedImage_45.png" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;3) Enable SMT in the BIOS + Reboot&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;4) Enable SMT in Check Point software and reboot the gateway.&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;&lt;SPAN style="color: red;"&gt;&lt;STRONG&gt;Attention!&lt;/STRONG&gt;&lt;BR /&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&amp;nbsp; 1) If multi-queue and affinity are not adjusted or used, this can lead to performance problems in combination with SMT.&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp; 2) Before enabling SMT, follow the instructions in &lt;A title="https://supportcenter.checkpoint.com/supportcenter/portal?eventSubmit_doGoviewsolutiondetails=&amp;amp;solutionid=sk93000&amp;amp;partition=General&amp;amp;product=Enterprise" href="https://supportcenter.checkpoint.com/supportcenter/portal?eventSubmit_doGoviewsolutiondetails=&amp;amp;solutionid=sk93000&amp;amp;partition=General&amp;amp;product=Enterprise" target="_blank" rel="noopener"&gt;SK93000&lt;/A&gt; to verify that the Security Gateway can support SMT safely and check if there is enough memory available for the FW_Worker.&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;&lt;STRONG&gt;# cpconfig&lt;/STRONG&gt;&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;UL&gt;
&lt;LI style="text-indent: -18.0pt;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; Choose '&lt;SPAN style="font-size: 10.0pt;"&gt;Configure Hyper-Threading&lt;/SPAN&gt;'&lt;/LI&gt;
&lt;LI style="text-indent: -18.0pt;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; Select '&lt;SPAN style="font-size: 10.0pt;"&gt;yes&lt;/SPAN&gt;'&lt;/LI&gt;
&lt;/UL&gt;
&lt;P&gt;# &lt;STRONG&gt;reboot&lt;/STRONG&gt;&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;5) Check the number of CoreXL FW instances&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;&lt;STRONG&gt;# fw ctl multik stat&lt;BR /&gt;&lt;/STRONG&gt;&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;&lt;STRONG&gt;&lt;IMG class="image-7 jive-image" src="https://community.checkpoint.com/legacyfs/online/checkpoint/73841_pastedImage_46.png" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/STRONG&gt;&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;If the number of CoreXL FW instances did not increase automatically, then configure the CoreXL.&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;&lt;STRONG&gt;# cpconfig&lt;/STRONG&gt;&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;UL&gt;
&lt;LI style="text-indent: -18.0pt;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; Choose '&lt;SPAN style="font-size: 10.0pt;"&gt;Configure Check Point CoreXL&lt;/SPAN&gt;'&lt;/LI&gt;
&lt;LI style="text-indent: -18.0pt;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; Set the desired number of CoreXL FW instances&lt;BR /&gt;&amp;nbsp; (for example 3 CoreXL FW instances)&lt;/LI&gt;
&lt;/UL&gt;
&lt;P&gt;&lt;SPAN style="color: red;"&gt;&lt;STRONG&gt;Attention!&lt;/STRONG&gt;&lt;BR /&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt; With a ClusterXL, the core number must be the same on all gateways. Otherwise ClusterXL problems will occur.&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;&lt;STRONG&gt;# reboot&lt;/STRONG&gt;&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;6) Check again the number of CoreXL FW instances&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;&lt;STRONG&gt;# fw ctl multik stat&lt;/STRONG&gt;&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;&lt;STRONG&gt;&lt;IMG class="jive-image image-8" src="https://community.checkpoint.com/legacyfs/online/checkpoint/73842_pastedImage_47.png" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/STRONG&gt;&lt;/P&gt;
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&lt;THEAD&gt;
&lt;TR&gt;
&lt;TH align="left"&gt;&lt;FONT size="4" color="#ffffff"&gt;Disable SMT&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/TH&gt;
&lt;/TR&gt;
&lt;/THEAD&gt;
&lt;/TABLE&gt;
&lt;P&gt;1) Disable SMT in Check Point software and reboot the gateway.&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;&lt;STRONG&gt;# cpconfig&lt;/STRONG&gt;&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;UL&gt;
&lt;LI style="text-indent: -18.0pt;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; Choose '&lt;SPAN style="font-size: 10.0pt;"&gt;Configure Hyper-Threading&lt;/SPAN&gt;'&lt;/LI&gt;
&lt;LI style="text-indent: -18.0pt;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; Select '&lt;SPAN style="font-size: 10.0pt;"&gt;No&lt;/SPAN&gt;'&lt;/LI&gt;
&lt;/UL&gt;
&lt;P&gt;# reboot&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;2) Check the number of CoreXL FW instances&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;&lt;STRONG&gt;&lt;SPAN style="font-size: 11.0pt;"&gt;#&lt;/SPAN&gt; &lt;SPAN style="font-size: 11.0pt;"&gt;fw ctl multik stat&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;SPAN style="font-size: 11.0pt;"&gt;&lt;STRONG&gt;&lt;BR /&gt;&lt;/STRONG&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/STRONG&gt;&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;&lt;SPAN style="font-size: 11.0pt;"&gt;&lt;STRONG&gt;&lt;STRONG&gt;&lt;IMG class="image-9 jive-image" src="https://community.checkpoint.com/legacyfs/online/checkpoint/73843_pastedImage_48.png" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/STRONG&gt;&lt;/STRONG&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/P&gt;
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&lt;THEAD&gt;
&lt;TR&gt;
&lt;TH align="left"&gt;&lt;FONT size="4" color="#ffffff"&gt;Q&amp;amp;A&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/TH&gt;
&lt;/TR&gt;
&lt;/THEAD&gt;
&lt;/TABLE&gt;
&lt;P&gt;&lt;BR /&gt;&lt;STRONG&gt;Q:&lt;/STRONG&gt; Which appliances were tested with SMT enabled.&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;&lt;STRONG&gt;A:&lt;/STRONG&gt; 5800 / 5900 / 15400 / 15600 / 23500 / 23800 / TE250X / TE1000X / TE2000X&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;&lt;STRONG&gt;Q:&lt;/STRONG&gt; I have an Open Server. Can I enable SMT in the BIOS and use it?&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;&lt;STRONG&gt;A:&lt;/STRONG&gt; SMT is supported only on Check Point appliances.&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;&lt;STRONG&gt;Q:&lt;/STRONG&gt; Is any degradation expected when enabling SMT?&lt;BR /&gt;&lt;STRONG&gt;A:&lt;/STRONG&gt; Enabling SMT will load additional CoreXL FW instances. These instances consume memory and the maximal connection capacity may decrease by up to 10%.&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;&lt;STRONG&gt;Q:&lt;/STRONG&gt; On which appliances is SMT enabled by default in the BIOS?&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;&lt;STRONG&gt;A:&lt;/STRONG&gt; Only on 13500 / 13800 / 15400 / 15600 / 21800 / 23500 / 23800 / TE250X / TE1000X / TE2000X appliances&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;&lt;STRONG&gt;Q:&lt;/STRONG&gt; What to do if multi-queue is enabled?&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;&lt;STRONG&gt;A:&lt;/STRONG&gt; If using Multi-Queue, once the final CoreXL split has been set be sure to run &lt;STRONG&gt;cpmq&lt;/STRONG&gt; reconfigure and reboot again, this will help ensure the new allocation of SND/IRQ cores are properly deployed for SoftIRQ processing on the Multi-Queue-enabled interfaces.&lt;/P&gt;
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&lt;THEAD&gt;
&lt;TR&gt;
&lt;TH align="left"&gt;&lt;FONT size="4" color="#ffffff"&gt;References&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/TH&gt;
&lt;/TR&gt;
&lt;/THEAD&gt;
&lt;/TABLE&gt;
&lt;P&gt;&lt;SPAN style="font-size: 11.0pt;"&gt;&lt;A class="link-titled" title="https://supportcenter.checkpoint.com/supportcenter/portal?eventSubmit_doGoviewsolutiondetails=&amp;amp;solutionid=sk93000&amp;amp;partition=General&amp;amp;product=Enterprise" href="https://supportcenter.checkpoint.com/supportcenter/portal?eventSubmit_doGoviewsolutiondetails=&amp;amp;solutionid=sk93000&amp;amp;partition=General&amp;amp;product=Enterprise" target="_blank" rel="noopener"&gt;SMT (HyperThreading) Feature Guide&lt;/A&gt;&lt;BR /&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;SPAN style="font-size: 11.0pt;"&gt;&lt;A class="link-titled" title="https://supportcenter.checkpoint.com/supportcenter/portal?eventSubmit_doGoviewsolutiondetails=&amp;amp;solutionid=sk98348&amp;amp;partition=General&amp;amp;product=Security#Best%20practices%20-%20SMT%20(HyperThreading)" href="https://supportcenter.checkpoint.com/supportcenter/portal?eventSubmit_doGoviewsolutiondetails=&amp;amp;solutionid=sk98348&amp;amp;partition=General&amp;amp;product=Security#Best%20practices%20-%20SMT%20(HyperThreading)" target="_blank" rel="noopener"&gt;Best Practices - Security Gateway Performance&lt;/A&gt;&lt;BR /&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;SPAN style="font-size: 11.0pt;"&gt;&lt;A class="link-titled" title="https://supportcenter.checkpoint.com/supportcenter/portal?eventSubmit_doGoviewsolutiondetails=&amp;amp;solutionid=sk98737&amp;amp;partition=Advanced&amp;amp;product=CoreXL%22" href="https://supportcenter.checkpoint.com/supportcenter/portal?eventSubmit_doGoviewsolutiondetails=&amp;amp;solutionid=sk98737&amp;amp;partition=Advanced&amp;amp;product=CoreXL%22" target="_blank" rel="noopener"&gt;ATRG: CoreXL&lt;/A&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;BR /&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;SPAN style="font-size: 11.0pt;"&gt;&lt;A class="link-titled" title="https://supportcenter.checkpoint.com/supportcenter/portal?eventSubmit_doGoviewsolutiondetails=&amp;amp;solutionid=sk103656&amp;amp;partition=General&amp;amp;product=CoreXL%22" href="https://supportcenter.checkpoint.com/supportcenter/portal?eventSubmit_doGoviewsolutiondetails=&amp;amp;solutionid=sk103656&amp;amp;partition=General&amp;amp;product=CoreXL%22" target="_blank" rel="noopener"&gt;Dynamic NAT port allocation feature&lt;/A&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/P&gt;
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      <pubDate>Sat, 10 Nov 2018 06:58:11 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>https://community.checkpoint.com/t5/General-Topics/R80-x-Performance-Tuning-Tip-SMT-Hyper-Threading/m-p/41626#M8718</guid>
      <dc:creator>Luka_Walhalder</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2018-11-10T06:58:11Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: R80.x Performance Tuning Tip – SMT (Hyper Threading)</title>
      <link>https://community.checkpoint.com/t5/General-Topics/R80-x-Performance-Tuning-Tip-SMT-Hyper-Threading/m-p/41627#M8719</link>
      <description>&lt;HTML&gt;&lt;HEAD&gt;&lt;/HEAD&gt;&lt;BODY&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;SPAN style="color: #333333; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;gt;&amp;gt;&amp;gt; This presentation is very simplified and should &amp;gt;&amp;gt;&amp;gt; illustrate the issues.. If SMT channel 2 uses all &amp;gt;&amp;gt;&amp;gt; core resources with I/O operations, channel 1 &amp;gt;&amp;gt;&amp;gt; must wait for the core resources.&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;SPAN style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-size: 21px;"&gt;The support had described this to me in a similar way in a ticket.&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;/BODY&gt;&lt;/HTML&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Sat, 10 Nov 2018 08:51:01 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>https://community.checkpoint.com/t5/General-Topics/R80-x-Performance-Tuning-Tip-SMT-Hyper-Threading/m-p/41627#M8719</guid>
      <dc:creator>Zoltan_Polowsky</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2018-11-10T08:51:01Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: R80.x Performance Tuning Tip – SMT (Hyper Threading)</title>
      <link>https://community.checkpoint.com/t5/General-Topics/R80-x-Performance-Tuning-Tip-SMT-Hyper-Threading/m-p/41628#M8720</link>
      <description>&lt;HTML&gt;&lt;HEAD&gt;&lt;/HEAD&gt;&lt;BODY&gt;&lt;P&gt;Dear Heiko,&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;Nice guide&amp;nbsp;, it can be better &lt;IMG src="https://community.checkpoint.com/legacyfs/online/checkpoint/emoticons/wink.png" /&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;Please allow me to ask you 3 questions :&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;1. What do you recommend ? Enable/Disable SMT?&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;2. What is the industry standard for SMT? enabled / disabled ?&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;3. Do you know if SMT is enabled/disabled for cloud based services/solutions&amp;nbsp; ?&amp;nbsp; OpenStack/VMware /IBM/AWS/Azure/Google/Alibaba/Oracle and many others ...&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;Some feedback:&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;1. SMT improve performance up to 30% for NGFW , as you wrote - more CPU's that can handle DPI.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;2. Please&amp;nbsp;add the data from&amp;nbsp;sk93000 - you added something legacy and the SK explain exactly what is need to do&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;A class="link-titled" href="https://supportcenter.us.checkpoint.com/supportcenter/portal?eventSubmit_doGoviewsolutiondetails=&amp;amp;solutionid=sk93000#Limitations" title="https://supportcenter.us.checkpoint.com/supportcenter/portal?eventSubmit_doGoviewsolutiondetails=&amp;amp;solutionid=sk93000#Limitations"&gt;SMT (HyperThreading) Feature Guide&lt;/A&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;- please add ALL data in order to make is easy , without this data I can understand otherwise.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;3. About VPN - can you please point to the SK/section that explain that it's need to disable it?&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;sk98348 "&lt;SPAN style="color: #000000; background-color: #ffffff; font-size: 14px;"&gt;SMT is&lt;SPAN&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;SPAN style="color: #ff00ff;"&gt;&lt;EM style="color: #000000; background-color: #ffffff; font-size: 14px;"&gt;&lt;STRONG&gt;not&lt;/STRONG&gt;&lt;/EM&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;SPAN style="color: #000000; background-color: #ffffff; font-size: 14px;"&gt;&lt;SPAN style="color: #ff00ff;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;SPAN style="text-decoration: underline;"&gt;recommended&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt; if only FireWall/VPN blades are used" = only in case of VPN &amp;amp; FW&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;SPAN style="color: #000000; background-color: #ffffff; font-size: 14px;"&gt;I will recommend to review&amp;nbsp;&lt;/SPAN&gt;sk105119 &amp;amp;&amp;nbsp;sk104760&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;SPAN style="color: #000000; background-color: #ffffff; font-size: 14px;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;4. About the&amp;nbsp;&lt;SPAN style="color: #333333; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;latency&lt;SPAN&gt;&amp;nbsp;- can you please point to SK/section that explain that it's increase&amp;nbsp;&lt;STRONG style="background-color: #ffffff; font-weight: 400;"&gt;latency ?&lt;/STRONG&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;Are you referring to trading traffic ?&amp;nbsp;&lt;SPAN style="color: #333333; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;sub 5 microsecond&amp;nbsp; =&amp;nbsp;&amp;lt; 5μs = UDP only traffic ? FW only?&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;SPAN style="color: #333333; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;TCP = "Service Response Time " /&amp;nbsp; "Average Round Trip"&amp;nbsp; , this not the same "&lt;SPAN&gt;latency" as UDP.&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;SPAN style="color: #333333; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;SPAN style="color: #333333;"&gt;Also, DPI /&amp;nbsp;Proxy - add processing time , this does increase the&amp;nbsp;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;SPAN style="background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;"&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;SPAN style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333;"&gt;Service Response Time " /&amp;nbsp; "Average Round Trip" as expected from any Security&amp;nbsp;Device .&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;SPAN style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;SPAN style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; font-weight: 400;"&gt;5. About NAT - Why NAT templates will not work ?&amp;nbsp;sk71200&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;Thanks ,&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;Ofir S&lt;/P&gt;&lt;/BODY&gt;&lt;/HTML&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Sat, 10 Nov 2018 10:49:59 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>https://community.checkpoint.com/t5/General-Topics/R80-x-Performance-Tuning-Tip-SMT-Hyper-Threading/m-p/41628#M8720</guid>
      <dc:creator>Ofir_Shikolski</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2018-11-10T10:49:59Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: R80.x Performance Tuning Tip – SMT (Hyper Threading)</title>
      <link>https://community.checkpoint.com/t5/General-Topics/R80-x-Performance-Tuning-Tip-SMT-Hyper-Threading/m-p/41629#M8721</link>
      <description>&lt;HTML&gt;&lt;HEAD&gt;&lt;/HEAD&gt;&lt;BODY&gt;&lt;P&gt;Hi &lt;A href="https://community.checkpoint.com/migrated-users/5015"&gt;Ofir,&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&amp;gt;&amp;gt;&amp;gt; 1. What do you recommend ? Enable/Disable SMT?&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;I wrote it in the article.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;UL&gt;&lt;LI style="text-indent: -18.0pt;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; On appliance SMT should always remain enabled. Except for the limitations mentioned in &lt;SPAN style="font-size: 11.0pt;"&gt;&lt;A href="https://supportcenter.checkpoint.com/supportcenter/portal?eventSubmit_doGoviewsolutiondetails=&amp;amp;solutionid=sk93000&amp;amp;partition=General&amp;amp;product=Enterprise"&gt;SK93000&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;.&lt;/LI&gt;&lt;LI style="text-indent: -18.0pt;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; At open server I would rather use real cores without SMT because here the hardware price not falls into the weight. Here physical cores are better in relation to the license price for CoreXL&lt;BR /&gt;&amp;nbsp;and the performance of SMT. Since the increase in performance is only approx. 30% with SMT.&lt;BR /&gt;&lt;SPAN style="color: #000000;"&gt;&lt;STRONG&gt;Attention!&lt;/STRONG&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt; SMT is supported only on Check Point appliances not on Open Server.&lt;/LI&gt;&lt;/UL&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;I think the critical point is the network card I/O operations. If you only use the FW and VPN I tend to enable SMT. If many softwar blades are in play to SMT on.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&amp;gt;&amp;gt;&amp;gt; 2. What is the industry standard for SMT? enabled / disabled ?&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;For Windows and Linux the recommendation is to enable SMT.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&amp;gt;&amp;gt;&amp;gt; 3. Do you know if SMT is enabled/disabled for cloud based services/solutions?&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;At Cloud I have done too few projects to make a statement.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;I've seen a SK here describing SMT on.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;What do you say from Check Point on this topic?&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;---&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;Thank you for your answer.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;I didn't want to copy the SK, so I inserted references.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;I look at the other points and adjust the article if necessary.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;Regards&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;Heiko&lt;/P&gt;&lt;/BODY&gt;&lt;/HTML&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Sat, 10 Nov 2018 13:07:53 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>https://community.checkpoint.com/t5/General-Topics/R80-x-Performance-Tuning-Tip-SMT-Hyper-Threading/m-p/41629#M8721</guid>
      <dc:creator>HeikoAnkenbrand</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2018-11-10T13:07:53Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: R80.x Performance Tuning Tip – SMT (Hyper Threading)</title>
      <link>https://community.checkpoint.com/t5/General-Topics/R80-x-Performance-Tuning-Tip-SMT-Hyper-Threading/m-p/41630#M8722</link>
      <description>&lt;HTML&gt;&lt;HEAD&gt;&lt;/HEAD&gt;&lt;BODY&gt;&lt;P&gt;Thanks a lot &lt;img id="smileyhappy" class="emoticon emoticon-smileyhappy" src="https://community.checkpoint.com/i/smilies/16x16_smiley-happy.png" alt="Smiley Happy" title="Smiley Happy" /&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;A few points :&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;1.&amp;nbsp;5800 / 5900 / 15400 / 15600 / 23500 / 23800 / TE250X / TE1000X / TE2000X appliances, &lt;STRONG&gt;which were tested with SMT enabled.&lt;/STRONG&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;2.&amp;nbsp;&lt;STRONG&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/STRONG&gt;&lt;STRONG&gt;I have an Open Server. Can I enable SMT in the BIOS and use it?&lt;/STRONG&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;A: SMT is supported only on Check Point appliances.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;3. &lt;STRONG&gt;Q: Is any degradation expected when enabling SMT?&lt;/STRONG&gt;&lt;BR /&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;A: Enabling SMT will load additional CoreXL FW instances. These instances consume memory and the maximal connection capacity may decrease by up to 10%.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;4.&amp;nbsp;&lt;STRONG&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/SPAN&gt;On which appliances is SMT enabled by default in the BIOS?&lt;/STRONG&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;SPAN style="color: #000000; background-color: #ffffff; font-size: 14px;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;A: Only on 13500 / 13800 / 15400 / 15600 / 21800 / 23500 / 23800 / TE250X / TE1000X / TE2000X appliances&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;SPAN style="color: #000000; background-color: #ffffff; font-size: 14px;"&gt;5. About VPN/FW only - interesting.. I will try on next few weeks to review it .&amp;nbsp;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;SPAN style="color: #000000; background-color: #ffffff; font-size: 14px;"&gt;6. About the cloud - I do not know if AWS/Azure and etc..&amp;nbsp; enable HT on their physical servers - it's a question that I thought that you might know &lt;IMG src="https://community.checkpoint.com/legacyfs/online/checkpoint/emoticons/wink.png" /&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;SPAN style="color: #000000; background-color: #ffffff; font-size: 14px;"&gt;7.&amp;nbsp;&lt;SPAN style="color: #333333;"&gt;network card I/O operations - MQ ? &amp;nbsp;you will utilize&amp;nbsp;multiple SXL (=CPU's)&amp;nbsp;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;/BODY&gt;&lt;/HTML&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Sat, 10 Nov 2018 13:58:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>https://community.checkpoint.com/t5/General-Topics/R80-x-Performance-Tuning-Tip-SMT-Hyper-Threading/m-p/41630#M8722</guid>
      <dc:creator>Ofir_Shikolski</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2018-11-10T13:58:00Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: R80.x Performance Tuning Tip – SMT (Hyper Threading)</title>
      <link>https://community.checkpoint.com/t5/General-Topics/R80-x-Performance-Tuning-Tip-SMT-Hyper-Threading/m-p/41631#M8723</link>
      <description>&lt;P&gt;Great article Heiko!&amp;nbsp; A few notes:&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;1) The "don't use SMT if Hide NAT is extensively used" limitation has been solved by the Dynamic NAT Port Allocation feature described here: &lt;A style="max-width: 840px;" href="https://supportcenter.checkpoint.com/supportcenter/portal?eventSubmit_doGoviewsolutiondetails=&amp;amp;solutionid=sk103656&amp;amp;partition=General&amp;amp;product=CoreXL%22" target="_blank"&gt;sk103656: Dynamic NAT port allocation feature&lt;/A&gt;.&amp;nbsp; So as long as you are running at least R77.30 with the latest GA Jumbo HFA (or R80.10+ gateway) this is no longer a concern, as this feature will enable by default if more than 6 cores are present.&amp;nbsp; This was definitely an issue in R77-R77.20 and was mentioned in the first edition of my book.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;
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&lt;P&gt;2) Traffic handled in PXL (Medium Path) and F2F (Firewall Path/slowpath) by the Firewall Worker cores tends to benefit most from SMT being enabled.&amp;nbsp; The reason for this is that security inspection operations in these paths tend to block often waiting for some event to occur such as the next packet in a stream to arrive, or the results of a process space "trip" like receiving a classification from the Check Point ThreatCloud.&amp;nbsp; When a block occurs, SMT allows another inspection operation that has just unblocked to hop on the same physical core to get its work done.&amp;nbsp; On most modern firewalls with the typical blades enabled, the vast majority of traffic tends to congregate in PXL so SMT is definitely helpful in that regard, and enabled by default on most appliances.&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;3) However as noted above, SMT is not recommended on firewalls with only the Firewall and IPSec VPN blades enabled (i.e. no "deep inspection" blades such as APCL/URLF or most of Threat Prevention are in use).&amp;nbsp; The SND/IRQ code is highly optimized to perform relatively simpler inspection operations at ludicrous speed, with very little blocking or "waiting around" at all.&amp;nbsp; This is why the fully-accelerated SXL path on the SND/IRQ cores cannot perform passive or active streaming.&amp;nbsp; As such if the majority of traffic (&amp;gt;50%) is being handled in the SXL path as displayed by &lt;STRONG&gt;fwaccel stats -s&lt;/STRONG&gt;, under high load the two SND/IRQ instances trying to execute their rapid-fire inspection operations tend to fight each other for the underlying physical core being represented as two logical cores.&lt;/P&gt;
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&lt;P&gt;4) Always a good idea to double-check free memory on the firewall with &lt;STRONG&gt;free -m&lt;/STRONG&gt; once it is initially deployed with SMT enabled, or immediately after enabling SMT for the first time.&amp;nbsp; The increased number of SND/IRQ and Firewall Worker instances will most definitely consume more RAM, and if the firewall is pushed over the edge into swap space usage the performance of the firewall can be dramatically affected in a negative way.&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;5) Also as mentioned above after enabling SMT for the first time double-check the number of kernel instances (Firewall Workers) and adjust if necessary via &lt;STRONG&gt;cpconfig&lt;/STRONG&gt;.&amp;nbsp; If using Multi-Queue, once the final CoreXL split has been set be sure to run &lt;STRONG&gt;cpmq reconfigure&lt;/STRONG&gt; and reboot again, this will help ensure the new allocation of SND/IRQ cores are properly deployed for SoftIRQ processing on the Multi-Queue-enabled interfaces.&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;6) On R80.10 and earlier as each new SND/IRQ core is added, there is a roughly linear increase in overall performance for SXL path processing and SoftIRQ processing.&amp;nbsp; However once more than 6 SND/IRQ cores are allocated (which is much more likely to happen with SMT enabled), the locking and coordination overhead between all the different SND/IRQ instances starts to exact a slight toll and the performance increase is no longer quite as linear as each additional SND/IRQ core is allocated beyond 6 (which is due to there only being one instance of the sim driver in the kernel, unlike the Firewall Worker cores which each have their own discrete driver instance in the kernel).&amp;nbsp; Just something to be aware of, I am most definitely NOT saying that you shouldn't allocate more than six SND/IRQ cores.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;All of the above is relevant to R80.10 gateway or earlier, still assessing R80.20+ gateway due to the wholesale changes in SecureXL.&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;--&lt;BR /&gt;Second Edition of my "Max Power" Firewall Book&lt;BR /&gt;Now Available at &lt;A href="http://www.maxpowerfirewalls.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener"&gt;http://www.maxpowerfirewalls.com&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/P&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 26 Sep 2019 17:30:20 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>https://community.checkpoint.com/t5/General-Topics/R80-x-Performance-Tuning-Tip-SMT-Hyper-Threading/m-p/41631#M8723</guid>
      <dc:creator>Timothy_Hall</dc:creator>
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      <description>&lt;HTML&gt;&lt;HEAD&gt;&lt;/HEAD&gt;&lt;BODY&gt;&lt;P&gt;Hi &lt;A href="https://community.checkpoint.com/migrated-users/5015"&gt;Ofir&lt;/A&gt;,&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;Thanks for your support.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;I like your questions and answers! I will include this in the article as Q&amp;amp;A.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;Regards&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;Heiko&lt;/P&gt;&lt;/BODY&gt;&lt;/HTML&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Sat, 10 Nov 2018 17:55:48 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>https://community.checkpoint.com/t5/General-Topics/R80-x-Performance-Tuning-Tip-SMT-Hyper-Threading/m-p/41632#M8724</guid>
      <dc:creator>HeikoAnkenbrand</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2018-11-10T17:55:48Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: R80.x Performance Tuning Tip – SMT (Hyper Threading)</title>
      <link>https://community.checkpoint.com/t5/General-Topics/R80-x-Performance-Tuning-Tip-SMT-Hyper-Threading/m-p/41633#M8725</link>
      <description>&lt;HTML&gt;&lt;HEAD&gt;&lt;/HEAD&gt;&lt;BODY&gt;&lt;P&gt;Thanks &lt;A href="https://community.checkpoint.com/migrated-users/41625"&gt;Timothy,&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;I agree with you.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;Regards&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;Heiko&lt;/P&gt;&lt;/BODY&gt;&lt;/HTML&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Sat, 10 Nov 2018 19:19:06 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>https://community.checkpoint.com/t5/General-Topics/R80-x-Performance-Tuning-Tip-SMT-Hyper-Threading/m-p/41633#M8725</guid>
      <dc:creator>HeikoAnkenbrand</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2018-11-10T19:19:06Z</dc:date>
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      <description>&lt;HTML&gt;&lt;HEAD&gt;&lt;/HEAD&gt;&lt;BODY&gt;&lt;P&gt;Hi &lt;A href="https://community.checkpoint.com/migrated-users/5015"&gt;Ofir,&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;I have a question to the topic&amp;nbsp; "SMT is supported only on Check Point appliances". We know that this comment been in the SK for years.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;I tested with "Open Server" and SMT in &lt;STRONG&gt;lab environments&lt;/STRONG&gt; and couldn't find any issues or performance disadvantages.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;I would like to understand the technical background why SMT is not supported on "Open Server"?&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;What is the technical reason?&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;Regards&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;Heiko&lt;/P&gt;&lt;/BODY&gt;&lt;/HTML&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Sun, 11 Nov 2018 06:47:26 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>https://community.checkpoint.com/t5/General-Topics/R80-x-Performance-Tuning-Tip-SMT-Hyper-Threading/m-p/41634#M8726</guid>
      <dc:creator>HeikoAnkenbrand</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2018-11-11T06:47:26Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: R80.x Performance Tuning Tip – SMT (Hyper Threading)</title>
      <link>https://community.checkpoint.com/t5/General-Topics/R80-x-Performance-Tuning-Tip-SMT-Hyper-Threading/m-p/41635#M8727</link>
      <description>&lt;HTML&gt;&lt;HEAD&gt;&lt;/HEAD&gt;&lt;BODY&gt;&lt;P&gt;Hi &lt;A _jive_internal="true" data-containerid="-1" data-containertype="-1" data-objectid="41625" data-objecttype="3" href="https://community.checkpoint.com/people/d401179d-0d5b-369d-a0f2-387c3ef54533"&gt;Timothy,&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;What I find interesting about &lt;A href="https://supportcenter.checkpoint.com/supportcenter/portal?eventSubmit_doGoviewsolutiondetails=&amp;amp;solutionid=sk103656&amp;amp;partition=General&amp;amp;product=CoreXL%22" rel="nofollow" style="max-width: 840px;"&gt;sk103656: Dynamic NAT port allocation feature&lt;/A&gt; is the statement:&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;CUT from sk103656&amp;gt;&amp;gt;&amp;gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;Notes about SecureXL:&lt;/P&gt;&lt;UL type="disc"&gt;&lt;LI&gt;Since &lt;STRONG&gt;R80.20&lt;/STRONG&gt; SecureXL does not have a separate port pool, and does not affect the number of ports. Since R80.20 all templates start in the Firewall.&lt;/LI&gt;&lt;/UL&gt;&lt;P&gt;&amp;lt;&amp;lt;&amp;lt;CUT&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;Regards&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;Heiko&lt;/P&gt;&lt;/BODY&gt;&lt;/HTML&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Sun, 11 Nov 2018 07:08:12 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>https://community.checkpoint.com/t5/General-Topics/R80-x-Performance-Tuning-Tip-SMT-Hyper-Threading/m-p/41635#M8727</guid>
      <dc:creator>HeikoAnkenbrand</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2018-11-11T07:08:12Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: R80.x Performance Tuning Tip – SMT (Hyper Threading)</title>
      <link>https://community.checkpoint.com/t5/General-Topics/R80-x-Performance-Tuning-Tip-SMT-Hyper-Threading/m-p/41636#M8728</link>
      <description>&lt;HTML&gt;&lt;HEAD&gt;&lt;/HEAD&gt;&lt;BODY&gt;&lt;P&gt;Yep not surprised, with the introduction of Column-based matching in R80.10 the need for SecureXL Accept Templates has lessened significantly.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;--&lt;BR /&gt; Second Edition of my "Max Power" Firewall Book&lt;BR /&gt; Now Available at &lt;A href="http://www.maxpowerfirewalls.com" target="_blank"&gt;http://www.maxpowerfirewalls.com&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;/BODY&gt;&lt;/HTML&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Sun, 11 Nov 2018 14:05:54 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>https://community.checkpoint.com/t5/General-Topics/R80-x-Performance-Tuning-Tip-SMT-Hyper-Threading/m-p/41636#M8728</guid>
      <dc:creator>Timothy_Hall</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2018-11-11T14:05:54Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: R80.x Performance Tuning Tip – SMT (Hyper Threading)</title>
      <link>https://community.checkpoint.com/t5/General-Topics/R80-x-Performance-Tuning-Tip-SMT-Hyper-Threading/m-p/41637#M8729</link>
      <description>&lt;HTML&gt;&lt;HEAD&gt;&lt;/HEAD&gt;&lt;BODY&gt;&lt;P&gt;Yep, many new features in R20.20.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;Joerg&lt;/P&gt;&lt;/BODY&gt;&lt;/HTML&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Sun, 11 Nov 2018 17:01:31 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>https://community.checkpoint.com/t5/General-Topics/R80-x-Performance-Tuning-Tip-SMT-Hyper-Threading/m-p/41637#M8729</guid>
      <dc:creator>Joerg_Enge</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2018-11-11T17:01:31Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: R80.x Performance Tuning Tip – SMT (Hyper Threading)</title>
      <link>https://community.checkpoint.com/t5/General-Topics/R80-x-Performance-Tuning-Tip-SMT-Hyper-Threading/m-p/41638#M8730</link>
      <description>&lt;HTML&gt;&lt;HEAD&gt;&lt;/HEAD&gt;&lt;BODY&gt;&lt;P&gt;Great article !!&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;In addition, on 12400 / 12600 / 21400 / 21600 / 21700 appliances SMT is not activated by default in the BIOS but customer can contact Check Point support to change this : througth a remote session, the support engineer will do the activation in the BIOS (BIOS access is password-protected).&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;Regards,&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;Benoit&lt;/P&gt;&lt;/BODY&gt;&lt;/HTML&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 12 Nov 2018 09:45:37 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>https://community.checkpoint.com/t5/General-Topics/R80-x-Performance-Tuning-Tip-SMT-Hyper-Threading/m-p/41638#M8730</guid>
      <dc:creator>Benoit_Verove</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2018-11-12T09:45:37Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: R80.x Performance Tuning Tip – SMT (Hyper Threading)</title>
      <link>https://community.checkpoint.com/t5/General-Topics/R80-x-Performance-Tuning-Tip-SMT-Hyper-Threading/m-p/41639#M8731</link>
      <description>&lt;HTML&gt;&lt;HEAD&gt;&lt;/HEAD&gt;&lt;BODY&gt;&lt;P&gt;Hello Patrik,&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;We enable SMT automatically since R80.10 on the Panther series (5XXX, 15XXX and 23XXX), not on the older series. For example, the SMT Status on 13500 GW will "Soft Disable" by default.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;/BODY&gt;&lt;/HTML&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 16 Nov 2018 11:22:23 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>https://community.checkpoint.com/t5/General-Topics/R80-x-Performance-Tuning-Tip-SMT-Hyper-Threading/m-p/41639#M8731</guid>
      <dc:creator>Dmitry_Krupnik</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2018-11-16T11:22:23Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: R80.x Performance Tuning Tip – SMT (Hyper Threading)</title>
      <link>https://community.checkpoint.com/t5/General-Topics/R80-x-Performance-Tuning-Tip-SMT-Hyper-Threading/m-p/41640#M8732</link>
      <description>&lt;HTML&gt;&lt;HEAD&gt;&lt;/HEAD&gt;&lt;BODY&gt;&lt;P&gt;Dear&amp;nbsp;&lt;SPAN style="color: #333333; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;Heiko,&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;AFAIK it's not supported &lt;STRONG&gt;for open-servers&lt;/STRONG&gt; due to :&amp;nbsp;you may experience installation or functionality issues later on.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;sk93000 FAQ:&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P style="color: #000000; background-color: #ffffff; font-size: 14px;"&gt;&lt;STRONG&gt;Q2: I have an appliance not listed in the supported appliances list. Why can't I use SMT?&lt;/STRONG&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;SPAN style="color: #000000; background-color: #ffffff; font-size: 14px;"&gt;A2: The SMT feature needs to be supported by both the hardware and the software. Appliances not listed do not support this feature.&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;SPAN style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #3d3d3d; font-size: 14px;"&gt;sk93000&lt;SPAN&gt;&amp;nbsp;:&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;Supported appliance configurations:&lt;/P&gt;&lt;TABLE border="1" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="2" style="color: #000000; background-color: #ffffff; font-size: 14px;"&gt;&lt;TBODY&gt;&lt;TR align="center" bgcolor="#d6dff0" class="" style="color: #333333; background: none 0px 0px repeat scroll #ebebeb; font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;TD class=""&gt;Appliance&lt;/TD&gt;&lt;TD class=""&gt;Comments&lt;/TD&gt;&lt;/TR&gt;&lt;TR&gt;&lt;TD align="center"&gt;12400&lt;/TD&gt;&lt;TD&gt;Requires 8 GB of RAM.&lt;BR /&gt;Refer to these solutions:&lt;BR /&gt;&lt;UL&gt;&lt;LI&gt;&lt;A href="https://supportcenter.checkpoint.com/supportcenter/portal?eventSubmit_doGoviewsolutiondetails=&amp;amp;solutionid=sk68700" style="color: #905690; text-decoration: none; font-size: 14px;" target="_blank"&gt;sk68700&lt;/A&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/SPAN&gt;for instructions for "12400 Appliance Installing and Removing Memory"&lt;/LI&gt;&lt;LI&gt;&lt;A href="https://supportcenter.checkpoint.com/supportcenter/portal?eventSubmit_doGoviewsolutiondetails=&amp;amp;solutionid=sk71001" style="color: #905690; text-decoration: none; font-size: 14px;" target="_blank"&gt;sk71001&lt;/A&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/SPAN&gt;for instructions on how to upgrade to 64-bit Gaia computers&lt;/LI&gt;&lt;/UL&gt;Requires enabling of SMT feature both in the BIOS and in '&lt;CODE&gt;cpconfig&lt;/CODE&gt;' (refer to "&lt;SPAN class="" style="color: #ba2454;"&gt;To enable SMT&lt;/SPAN&gt;" section).&lt;/TD&gt;&lt;/TR&gt;&lt;TR&gt;&lt;TD align="center"&gt;12600&lt;/TD&gt;&lt;TD&gt;Requires enabling of SMT feature both in the BIOS and in '&lt;CODE&gt;cpconfig&lt;/CODE&gt;' (refer to "&lt;SPAN class="" style="color: #ba2454;"&gt;To enable SMT&lt;/SPAN&gt;" section).&lt;/TD&gt;&lt;/TR&gt;&lt;TR&gt;&lt;TD align="center"&gt;13500&lt;BR /&gt;13800&lt;BR /&gt;21800&lt;/TD&gt;&lt;TD&gt;&lt;P&gt;Is already shipped with enabled SMT feature in the BIOS.&lt;/P&gt;Requires enabling of SMT feature only in '&lt;CODE&gt;cpconfig&lt;/CODE&gt;' (refer to "&lt;SPAN class="" style="color: #ba2454;"&gt;To enable SMT&lt;/SPAN&gt;" section).&lt;/TD&gt;&lt;/TR&gt;&lt;TR&gt;&lt;TD align="center"&gt;21400&lt;BR /&gt;21600&lt;BR /&gt;21700&lt;/TD&gt;&lt;TD&gt;&lt;P&gt;SAM Acceleration card is not supported.&lt;/P&gt;Requires enabling of SMT feature both in the BIOS and in '&lt;CODE&gt;cpconfig&lt;/CODE&gt;' (refer to "&lt;SPAN class="" style="color: #ba2454;"&gt;To enable SMT&lt;/SPAN&gt;" section).&lt;/TD&gt;&lt;/TR&gt;&lt;TR&gt;&lt;TD align="center"&gt;5800&lt;BR /&gt;5900&lt;BR /&gt;15400&lt;BR /&gt;15600&lt;BR /&gt;23500&lt;BR /&gt;23800&lt;/TD&gt;&lt;TD&gt;&lt;P&gt;Is already shipped with enabled SMT feature in the BIOS.&lt;/P&gt;5800 / 15400 / 15600 / 23500 / 23800 appliances require:&lt;BR /&gt;&lt;OL&gt;&lt;LI&gt;Installation of the hotfix from&lt;SPAN&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;A href="https://supportcenter.checkpoint.com/supportcenter/portal?eventSubmit_doGoviewsolutiondetails=&amp;amp;solutionid=sk109772" style="color: #905690; text-decoration: none; font-size: 14px;" target="_blank"&gt;sk109772 - R77.30 NGTP, NGTX and HTTPS Inspection performance and memory consumption optimization&lt;/A&gt;.&lt;/LI&gt;&lt;LI&gt;Enabling of SMT feature in '&lt;CODE&gt;cpconfig&lt;/CODE&gt;' (refer to "&lt;SPAN class="" style="color: #ba2454;"&gt;To enable SMT&lt;/SPAN&gt;" section).&lt;/LI&gt;&lt;/OL&gt;&lt;P&gt;On 5800 / 5900 / 15400 / 15600 / 23500 / 23800 appliances, SMT is recommended with all blades.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;/TD&gt;&lt;/TR&gt;&lt;TR&gt;&lt;TD align="center"&gt;TE250X&lt;BR /&gt;TE1000X&lt;BR /&gt;TE2000X&lt;/TD&gt;&lt;TD&gt;&lt;P&gt;Is already shipped with enabled SMT feature in the BIOS.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;Requires enabling of SMT feature only in '&lt;CODE&gt;cpconfig&lt;/CODE&gt;' (refer to "&lt;SPAN class="" style="color: #ba2454;"&gt;To enable SMT&lt;/SPAN&gt;" section).&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;On these appliances, SMT is recommended with all blades.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;/TD&gt;&lt;/TR&gt;&lt;/TBODY&gt;&lt;/TABLE&gt;&lt;P style="color: #000000; background-color: #ffffff; font-size: 14px;"&gt;&lt;STRONG&gt;Note&lt;/STRONG&gt;: To enable SMT in the BIOS,&lt;SPAN&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;A href="http://www.checkpoint.com/services/contact/index.html" style="color: #905690; text-decoration: none; font-size: 14px;" target="_blank"&gt;contact Check Point Support&lt;/A&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/SPAN&gt;or&lt;SPAN&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;A href="http://www.checkpoint.com/support-services/index.html" style="color: #905690; text-decoration: none; font-size: 14px;" target="_blank"&gt;contact Check Point Professional Services&lt;/A&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/SPAN&gt;to get confirmation and approval beforehand.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P style="color: #000000; background-color: #ffffff; font-size: 14px;"&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P style="color: #000000; background-color: #ffffff; font-size: 14px;"&gt;+&amp;nbsp;sk107516 :&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;TABLE border="1" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="2" width="90%"&gt;&lt;TBODY&gt;&lt;TR&gt;&lt;TD&gt;&lt;STRONG&gt;On&amp;nbsp;23900 appliances&lt;/STRONG&gt;,&amp;nbsp;Hyper Threading is hard-coded to be disabled on R77.30 and R80.10, with no impact on performance&lt;/TD&gt;&lt;/TR&gt;&lt;/TBODY&gt;&lt;/TABLE&gt;&lt;P style="color: #000000; background-color: #ffffff; font-size: 14px;"&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P style="color: #000000; background-color: #ffffff; font-size: 14px;"&gt;+&amp;nbsp;sk93332 :&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;The following table shows various hardware information about SGMs:&lt;/P&gt;&lt;TABLE border="1" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="2"&gt;&lt;TBODY&gt;&lt;TR style="background-color: #d6dff0;"&gt;&lt;TD width="100"&gt;Criteria&lt;/TD&gt;&lt;TD width="150"&gt;SGM220&lt;/TD&gt;&lt;TD width="150"&gt;SGM220T&lt;BR /&gt;(for NEBS)&lt;SPAN&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;SUP&gt;(1)&lt;/SUP&gt;&lt;/TD&gt;&lt;TD width="150"&gt;SGM260&lt;/TD&gt;&lt;TD width="150"&gt;SGM400&lt;/TD&gt;&lt;/TR&gt;&lt;TR&gt;&lt;TD&gt;CPU Cores&lt;/TD&gt;&lt;TD&gt;8 / 12&lt;/TD&gt;&lt;TD&gt;8 / 12&lt;/TD&gt;&lt;TD&gt;20 physical /&lt;BR /&gt;40 with enabled&lt;BR /&gt;Hyper Threading&lt;/TD&gt;&lt;TD&gt;28 physical /&lt;BR /&gt;56 with enabled&lt;BR /&gt;Hyper Threading&lt;/TD&gt;&lt;/TR&gt;&lt;/TBODY&gt;&lt;/TABLE&gt;&lt;P style="color: #000000; background-color: #ffffff; font-size: 14px;"&gt;Notes:&lt;/P&gt;&lt;OL style="color: #000000; background-color: #ffffff; font-size: 14px;"&gt;&lt;LI&gt;SGM220T is supported&lt;SPAN&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;EM&gt;only&lt;/EM&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/SPAN&gt;by the 61000 / 61000 N+N Security Systems.&lt;/LI&gt;&lt;/OL&gt;&lt;/BODY&gt;&lt;/HTML&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 16 Nov 2018 20:33:36 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>https://community.checkpoint.com/t5/General-Topics/R80-x-Performance-Tuning-Tip-SMT-Hyper-Threading/m-p/41640#M8732</guid>
      <dc:creator>Ofir_Shikolski</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2018-11-16T20:33:36Z</dc:date>
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