P4 HT --> enable SMP?

firefly firefly at gobsd.com
Wed May 26 13:53:10 PDT 2004


Matthew Dillon wrote:
:Naive end-user question:
:Not understanding how SMP is implemented, does enabling SMP make a 
:difference for single CPU P4 HT?
:
:Thanks.

    I don't know.  If you have such a beast try it and tell us what
    happens!  I would expect that it would not make a big difference.
					-Matt
					Matthew Dillon 
					<dillon at xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Matt,
I am happy to run a comparison with SMP and without.
Do you know off hand a reasonable test to compare the two? Make 
buildworld time?

. ..firefly





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