On Tue, 31 Dec 2002 20:16:03 -0800 (PST) "nate" <debian-user@aphroland.org> wrote: | nick lidakis said: | > I was looking to replace my 1Ghz P3 and motherboard with a stable, but | > fast mb/cpu combo that was fully supported by a recent linux kernel. I | > was looking a an Intel 845PE motherboard with a 3.0Ghz cpu. My question | > is, how is Hyperthreading supported under linux? Is it a matter of | > enabling SMP in the kernel? Anyone playing with one of these CPU's? | | | it is supported by default. the system will see double the cpus there | actually are. the kernel isn't tuned to fully take advantage of the | hyperthreading yet though. I think newer 2.5.x kernels can do it, perhaps | theres a patch for 2.4.x.. but last I read the current breed of stable | kernels are not optimized for it. | | If I had a system with hyperthreading I would disable the hyperthreading | in the bios(one mailing list thread mentioned there is an option to do | so, at least on some systems). Because the kernel would get confused and | think there are 4 processors on a 2 processor system it might try to get | smart by loading stuff up on processor #2, not knowing its the same physical | processor as #1, before loading stuff on #3. I don't remember any benchmark | numbers but I seem to recall there being very little if any difference | in performance on hyperthreaded systems with hyperthreading on vs. off | on the stock kernels(performance can go way up on the newer 2.5.x which | are tuned to take advantage of it in some cases). | | I've read one post on the redhat list recently, some guy was asking why | top showed 4 cpus on his dual p4, since it was a dual cpu system, a guy | responded because it was hyperthreading ....... | | so it should work, just not very optimal. | | nate | Well, ASUS suggest to compile with the Hyper-Threading compiler ??? What about this compiler ? Thanks mess-mate -- Computers are like air conditioners, they are useless when you open Windows.
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