Re: Linux 2.4.19-rc3 (hyperthreading)

[Andrew Theurer]

On Monday 29 July 2002 7:37 pm, Alan Cox wrote:
> On Mon, 2002-07-29 at 21:58, Andrew Theurer wrote:
> > Agreed, we need some sort of irqbalance, and I intend to test with Ingo's
> > and Andrea's approaches. With that addition, I may even see an
> > improvement with hyperthreading. But for an rc release, I think it would
> > be prudent to revert the "new code" for default hyperthreading behavior,
> > and attack the whole problem in 2.4.20 or later release.
>
> Because your personal workload is slower ?

Well, I would think some here would be interested in samba performance.   
However, If 4-way P4 systems are considered rare at this point I guess it's 
not important enough to revert.  FYI, after testing 2P with and without 
hyperthreading, it's much faster.  481 Mbps for no hyperthreading and 605 
Mbps with.  If I can get even close to that improvement with 4 processors, 
I'll be very happy.   

-Andrew Theurer