Re: /proc/cpuinfo and hyperthreading

[Andrew Theurer]

On Monday 16 December 2002 07:54, Brian Jackson wrote:
> You could always boot once with nosmp and run some benchmarks and then
> reboot (with smp) and run some more benchmarks, and see if there is a
> difference.

Yes, but wouldn't booting a UP kernel be a better comparison?  After all, why 
incur any possible overhead of an SMP kernel if you don't need to?  Some 
benchmarks may not show a difference, but some definitely will.

-Andrew Theurer