[luau] hyperthreading facts

[LinuxDan]

YES!!  Ask Brian Low also. We are putting together P4-2.53 with Intel boards
with HT that do the job regardless
What else you may hear.


-----Original Message-----
From: luau-admin at videl.ics.hawaii.edu
[mailto:luau-admin at videl.ics.hawaii.edu]On Behalf Of Robert Green
Sent: Tuesday, January 14, 2003 10:54 AM
To: luau at videl.ics.hawaii.edu
Subject: Re: [luau] hyperthreading facts

I don't know much about Hyperthreading, but do the applications need
to be specially optimized and/or recompiled for you to get
performance increases, or will standard applications see these types
of improvements just due to the CPU alone?

Thanks!

Rob


--- "R. Scott Belford" <sctinc at flex.com> wrote:
>
http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-htl/?ca=dgr-lnxw01Hype
rThread#resources
>
> "Intel Xeon Hyper-Threading is definitely having a positive impact
> on Linux
> kernel and multithreaded applications. The speed-up from
> Hyper-Threading
> could be as high as 30% in stock kernel 2.4.19, to 51% in kernel
> 2.5.32 due
> to drastic changes in the scheduler run queue's support and
> Hyper-Threading
> awareness. ..."
>
> This article was linked from Slashdot.
>
> scott
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