Messages in this thread | | | From | (bill davidsen) | Subject | Re: Hyperthreading Patch Results | Date | 8 Dec 2003 04:11:15 GMT |
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In article <119145131687.20031206041918@webspires.com>, Russell \"Elik\" Rademacher <elik@webspires.com> wrote: | Hello linux-kernel, | | Okay folks. I have installed it on 28 production servers with that patch contributed by William Lee Irwin III including Dell Servers and 2 Compaq servers among other types of hardware with 3ware, MPT SCSI, straight IDE, MylexRaid in the mix. I have reported no problems with them and they all correctly reported the HyperThreading CPUs. Previous versions since 2.4.21 have problems reporting the Hyperthreaded Dual Xeons and report it as 2 CPUs instead of 4. | | So..I recommend this patch being pushed to 2.4.x tree for inclusion.
Marcello has announced a freeze on any new features in 2.4, so unless this is considered a bug fix it may not get in.
More to the point, unless Ingo's new HT scheduler changes are accepted at the same time, I'm not sure this is going to help most people. I will let people discuss that or not as they please, based on reports of HT performance, there may actually be regression. I have not tries this with 2.4 yyet, so I can't say. -- bill davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com> CTO, TMR Associates, Inc Doing interesting things with little computers since 1979. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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