Re: [PATCH] 2.6.0 batch scheduling, HT aware

From: bill davidsen
Date: Mon Dec 29 2003 - 19:45:18 EST


In article <3FED4838.6050908@xxxxxxxxxxx>,
=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Mika_Penttil=E4?= <mika.penttila@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

| heh...and the situation gets even worse when you add cpus, with 16way
| you get only 1/16 of the speed ;)

No, not when you add CPUs, when you add siblings. There's a big
difference, since sibs compete for cache on the chip, and some execution
units (FPU?).
--
bill davidsen <davidsen@xxxxxxx>
CTO, TMR Associates, Inc
Doing interesting things with little computers since 1979.
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