Re: strange CPU speedups with SMP on Athlon 64 X2

2005-08-31 Thread Nick Piggin
Nathan Becker wrote: I would be happy to post my exact C source that I use to do the benchmark, but I wanted to get some feedback first in case I'm just doing something stupid. Also, since I'm not subscribed to this list, please cc me directly regarding this topic. Hi Nathan, Cache issu

Re: strange CPU speedups with SMP on Athlon 64 X2

2005-08-30 Thread Willy Tarreau
Hi, stupid question : isn't it possible that your motherboard does some sort of overclocking when it detects high cpu usage (bus activity, etc...) ? It should not be easy to check (rdtsc every second ?), but you might want to explore such a possibility. Regards, willy On Tue, Aug 30, 2005 at 12:

strange CPU speedups with SMP on Athlon 64 X2

2005-08-30 Thread Nathan Becker
Hi, I'm having a strange problem when I benchmark some of my physics simulation code on my new Athlon 64 X2 4800 machine. It occurs on all current kernels that I have tested including 2.6.12.5 and 2.6.13. If I run my benchmark single threaded, so that one of the two CPU cores is just idling