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CharlesCS
Apr 25, 2017Cirrus
It depends on what BIG-IP software version you're running.
Prior to BIG-IP 11.5.0, each logical CPU core is assigned a separate TMM instance, and each core processes both data plane (TMM-specific) tasks and control plane (non-TMM-specific) tasks.
Beginning in BIG-IP 11.5.0, data plane tasks and control plane tasks use separate logical cores on systems with Intel Hyper-Threading Technology (HT Technology) CPUs. Even-numbered logical cores (hyperthreads) are allocated to TMM, while odd numbered cores are available for other processes.
See K15468 for details.