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Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2002 14:10:52 -0700
From: "Martin J. Bligh" <Martin.Bligh@us.ibm.com>
To: James Bourne <jbourne@MtRoyal.AB.CA>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Subject: Hyperthreading
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> That has balanced the timer irqs.  I've also enabled hyper threading
> (append="acpismp=force").
> ...
> And, you've gotta like this line:
> Total of 4 processors activated (14299.95 BogoMIPS).

Before you get too excited about that, how much performance boost do 
you actually get by turning on Hyperthreading? ;-)

M.

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