On Thu, Oct 12, 2006 at 08:56:54PM +0800, Joseph A. Dacuma wrote:
> > On Thu, Oct 12, 2006 at 04:01:40AM +0800, Joseph A. Dacuma wrote:
> >>
> >> Is it wise to enable HT? I came across various sites where they say
> >> Hyper
> >> Threading makes a system unstable.
> >
> > s/unstable/slow/
> >
> > Unless your scheduler completely understands HT, and assigns processes
> > accordingly, and unless all the idle loops and busy-wait loops are
> > HT correct, you could easily be better off disabling HT.
> >
> > To some extent HT is a win under windows because its scheduler is so bad
> > at handling spinning processes.
> >
> > 	David
> >
> Dear Sirs,
> 
> Thank you very much for all the info on HT. My last question is, does
> NetBSD completely understand HT? Or will one be better off disabling it
> completely since the performance gains is not that glaring compared to the
> risks involved when enabled for common systems.

There's should be no risk, but as NetBSD's scheduler isn't HT-aware
for some applications it can be slower. You have to test to be sure, though

-- 
Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
     NetBSD: 26 ans d'experience feront toujours la difference
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