Message-ID: <20061227155104.91856.qmail@web32607.mail.mud.yahoo.com>
Date: Wed, 27 Dec 2006 07:51:04 -0800 (PST)
From: Martin Knoblauch <knobi@knobisoft.de>
Reply-To: knobi@knobisoft.de
Subject: Re: How to detect multi-core and/or HT-enabled CPUs in 2.4.x and 2.6.x kernels
To: Gleb Natapov <glebn@voltaire.com>, Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
In-Reply-To: <20061227152240.GC10953@minantech.com>
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--- Gleb Natapov <glebn@voltaire.com> wrote:

> > 
> If I run two threads that are doing only calculations and very little
> or no
> IO at all on the same socket will modern HT and dual core be the same
> (or close) performance wise?
> 

 actually I wanted to write that "HT as implemented on XEONs did not
help a lot for HPC workloads in the past"....

Cheers
Martin

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