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Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2002 17:31:05 -0700
From: "Martin J. Bligh" <Martin.Bligh@us.ibm.com>
To: "Jeff V. Merkey" <jmerkey@vger.timpanogas.org>
cc: James Bourne <jbourne@MtRoyal.AB.CA>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
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Subject: Re: Hyperthreading
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>> Before you get too excited about that, how much performance boost do 
>> you actually get by turning on Hyperthreading? ;-)
> 
> In my testing with SCI, it speeds up some operations and with 3Ware 
> it increases throuput about 10 MB/S.  Not a lot but there is some 
> improvement (if you can get around the lockups during boot).

What's that 10MB/s as a percentage of the overall performance?

M.

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