Check out, in particular, the section "Single-task and multi-task modes".




On Dec 11, 2014, at 11:06 PM, Jeff Hammond <jeff.scie...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Can someone post docs for this resource halving Squyres claims? I've never 
> heard of this.
>
> Jeff
>
> On Thursday, December 11, 2014, Samuel Thibault <samuel.thiba...@inria.fr> 
> wrote:
> Jeff Squyres (jsquyres), le Thu 11 Dec 2014 21:12:27 +0000, a écrit :
> > When the BIOS is set to enable hyper threading, then several resources on 
> > the core are split when the machine is booted up (e.g., some of the queue 
> > depths for various processing units in the core are half the length that 
> > they are when hyperthreading is disabled in the BIOS).
>
> Perhaps some queues get divided, but most of the resources (such as
> cache, TLB, etc.) are completely available when using only one
> hyperthread, like they would be with HT disabled.
>
> Samuel
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