On Tue, Oct 28, 2003 at 12:34:25PM -0700, John R. Shannon wrote:
> Am I better off enabling or disabling hyperthtreading on a twin Xeon system?
[...]
> The two "logical" CPUs are treated by the scheduler as ordinary processors?

They are, and that's why you're currently better off disabling HT.
Scheduling will be suboptimal. For example, if you have two runnable
processes, and one of them is running on a physical CPU, the other
one might be scheduled on the same physical CPU (using the 2nd virtual
CPU).

The scheduler will require some reworking to avoid this.

- Frank

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Frank van der Linden                                            fvdl@netbsd.org
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