Maxim Sobolev wrote:
Bruce Evans wrote:
Off is a good default since hyperthreading seems to be a pessimization
in most casts.
Well, actually it all depends on workload and scheduling. I believe ULE
is expected to improve things quite a bit in scheduling department.
However, even with ol'good SCHED_BSD we measured noticeable performance
increase (15-25%) in CPU intensive real-world tasks with HTT enabled on
2-way SMP Xeon system. It was in 2004, both CPUs and schedules should
have been improved since that time.
-Maxim
Vicor (where I used to work) noticed recently that newer systems were
getting much less work done thann their older bretheren.
On investigation they found that it was because the newer
systems had HT turned off.. Their workload is a mix of FP and Int crunching
in image processing and just happens to be the near perfect HT workload.
With 2 x HT processors (4 logical processors), they could get about 3.7
times the throughput of a single processor in tests I did in 04 or so.
However for most other loads HT turned out to be at best a wash and at worst
a slight loss, so having it off will help the average user I think.
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