Re: Status of hyperthreading in FreeBSD

2008-12-22 Thread Ivan Voras
Wojciech Puchar wrote: >> >> Atom's HTT is actually pretty good - I saw up to 25% more performance >> simply by using multithreading in 7zip's compression benchmark (on >> WinXP, though). Of course, OTOH it uses about that much more transistors >> on the CPU die so it's not exactly free performance

Re: Status of hyperthreading in FreeBSD

2008-12-22 Thread Ivan Voras
Sam Fourman Jr. wrote: >> as far as i know, just enabling smp will allow ht to function. also, i don't >> know if intel changed ht in the new atom processor, they could have. > is FreeBSD's smp special in some way that it would be the exception to > the following statement. > I know there was a lot

Re: Status of hyperthreading in FreeBSD

2008-12-22 Thread Wojciech Puchar
Atom's HTT is actually pretty good - I saw up to 25% more performance simply by using multithreading in 7zip's compression benchmark (on WinXP, though). Of course, OTOH it uses about that much more transistors on the CPU die so it's not exactly free performance. really that much? i thought mayb

Re: Status of hyperthreading in FreeBSD

2008-12-21 Thread Sam Fourman Jr.
>> > as far as i know, just enabling smp will allow ht to function. also, i don't > know if intel changed ht in the new atom processor, they could have. >> is FreeBSD's smp special in some way that it would be the exception to the following statement. I know there was a lot of changes made in the n

Re: Status of hyperthreading in FreeBSD

2008-12-21 Thread Ivan Voras
Brett Glass wrote: > Which raises a question: What's the status of FreeBSD's support for > hyperthreading? As far as I know, after it was revealed that some > processes on a machine with hyperthreading could "spy" on others, and Yes, but that is a hardware problem which is independent of the oper

Re: Status of hyperthreading in FreeBSD

2008-12-20 Thread Wojciech Puchar
"Netbooks" based on Intel's "Atom" microprocessor are turning into big hits this Christmas season. The Atom, a super-low-power x86 processor, is an "in-order" machine, which means that except for a few special cases it can spend a lot of time waiting for data to arrive when it encounters a cache

Re: Status of hyperthreading in FreeBSD

2008-12-20 Thread michael
Brett Glass wrote: "Netbooks" based on Intel's "Atom" microprocessor are turning into big hits this Christmas season. The Atom, a super-low-power x86 processor, is an "in-order" machine, which means that except for a few special cases it can spend a lot of time waiting for data to arrive when

Status of hyperthreading in FreeBSD

2008-12-20 Thread Brett Glass
"Netbooks" based on Intel's "Atom" microprocessor are turning into big hits this Christmas season. The Atom, a super-low-power x86 processor, is an "in-order" machine, which means that except for a few special cases it can spend a lot of time waiting for data to arrive when it encounters a cach