Re: HT Benchmarks (was: /proc/cpuinfo and hyperthreading)

H. Peter Anvin (hpa@zytor.com)
17 Dec 2002 12:44:22 -0800

Followup to: <200212170614.gBH6ELs15888@Port.imtp.ilyichevsk.odessa.ua>
By author: Denis Vlasenko <vda@port.imtp.ilyichevsk.odessa.ua>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>
> As to HT, it's definitely a good thing. Multiple CPUs on a chip is
> a logical step. HT in P4 is rather weak, but future processors will
> likely have more advanced cores.
>

SMT and SMP-on-chip are two very different things.

> I never heard about HT from AMD camp. I'm curious what they do. ;)

Not have insanely long pipelines, so that a single thread can actually
use the processor functional units?

-hpa

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