Re: Hyperthreading & 8.0

Ian Holsman <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.redhat.release.limbo
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Ryan wrote:
> What does hyperthreading provide?
from the benchmarks I have seen, they have reported a ~20-30% 
performance increase.

the intel website goes into great detail about it, but a 2 line summary.
a chip with 'hyperthreading' (ie Pentium IV Xeons) can be seen to the 
kernel as 2 seperate cpu's allowing two threads to execute at the same time

--Ian

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> On Mon, 2002-09-23 at 16:38, Jim Hayward wrote:
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>>On Mon, 2002-09-23 at 13:18, Lotas T Smartman wrote:
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>>>Am I not wrong in thinking that hyperthreading is only in the Xeon
>>>P4's? and the newer ones out next year? Standard P4's now don't have
>>>it, or am I wrong?
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>>AFAIK the current Xeon's are the only chips that support
>>hyper-threading. The 3.06 GHz P4 which, according to rumor is supposed
>>to be released Oct 25, will be the first "desktop" P4 to support
>>hyper-threading.
>>
>>Regards,
>>	Jim H
>>
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