jdeifik wrote:
I have a dual xeon 2.4ghz machine with hypertreading enabled.
This gives me 4 logical processors.
The machine dual boots to windows xp sp2, and linux.
I have a highly parallelizable program I wrote, and I tested it running
1 to 8 threads,
running with no source changes on windows and linux.
Here is the performance on linux using gcc-3.4.3
threads
1 1436.41user 0.10system 7:16.37elapsed 100%CPU (0avgtext+0avgdata
0maxresident)k
2 436.00user 0.02system 3:38.15elapsed 199%CPU (0avgtext+0avgdata
0maxresident)k
3 369.15user 0.05system 2:03.48elapsed 298%CPU (0avgtext+0avgdata
0maxresident)k
4 359.77user 0.08system 1:42.95elapsed 349%CPU (0avgtext+0avgdata
0maxresident)k
6 357.83user 0.09system 1:40.94elapsed 354%CPU (0avgtext+0avgdata
0maxresident)k
8 358.79user 0.06system 1:41.80elapsed 352%CPU (0avgtext+0avgdata
0maxresident)k
To compute efficiency, take the single thread elapsed time/(# threads *
threaded elapsed time)
There is virtually perfect scaling. 4 processors scale with an
efficiency of about 103%.
For 6 and 8 threads, efficiency goes up a small amount.
Here is the performance on windows xp using cygwin pthreads and gcc-3.4.4
1 434.60user 0.20system 7:16.47elapsed 99%CPU (0avgtext+0avgdata
509696maxresident)k
2 441.78user 0.24system 3:42.06elapsed 199%CPU (0avgtext+0avgdata
510208maxresident)k
3 579.68user 0.15system 3:14.50elapsed 298%CPU (0avgtext+0avgdata
511232maxresident)k
4 675.39user 0.15system 2:51.50elapsed 393%CPU (0avgtext+0avgdata
512000maxresident)k
6 711.70user 0.18system 3:01.20elapsed 392%CPU (0avgtext+0avgdata
511488maxresident)k
8 683.35user 0.21system 2:56.05elapsed 388%CPU (0avgtext+0avgdata
512000maxresident)k
Things are fine for 2 threads, scaling with an efficiency of 96%
For 3 threads, scaling efficiency is 73%
For 4 threads, scaling efficiency is 62%
For 6 threads, scaling efficiency is 39%
For 8 threads, scaling efficiency is 30%
Windows doesn't have HT aware scheduling, such as recent linux
schedulers incorporate. Cygwin doesn't attempt to improve on the
Windows scheduler. I won't ask for relevant details about your linux,
or how you managed to write a program which doesn't deliver close to
full performance at 2 threads, as that would take this even further Off
Topic. However, if you are getting good scaling to 2 threads, that
should enable you to get all the dual processor performance you can
expect in Windows for practical purposes. You might try repeating your
tests with HT disabled in BIOS.
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