Actually, now I am all spun around. The kenel configuration I was thinking of is indeed SMP [1] or Symmetric Multiprocessing (SMP) [1] https://www.linuxtopia.

Actually, now I am all spun around. The kenel configuration I was thinking of is indeed SMP [1] or Symmetric Multiprocessing (SMP) [1] https://www.linuxtopia.org/online_books/linux_kernel/kernel_configuration/re146.html https://www.linuxtopia.org/online_books/linux_kernel/kernel_... I will correct my typo above and expand the TLA (I can't edit my original post. Sorry for the confusion)