3 Jun
2003
3 Jun
'03
7:22 p.m.
On Tue, Jun 03, 2003 at 10:19:15 -0700, Fernando Pablo Lopez-Lezcano wrote:
The problem is not speed but latency glitches. It
certainly should be
slower than a "real" dual cpu system but it could be slightly faster
than the same uniprocessor machine with ht turned off. Of course if you
have latency problems it is not very useful.
I think its a better win if the kernel understands HT, I have a smp ht
machine and big parallel therads sometime get stuck on different threads of
the same cpu, instead of different cpus. If I had no HT in those cases it
would be faster.
- Steve