Subject: Re: Hyperthreading?
To: None <port-i386@NetBSD.org>
From: Frederick Bruckman <fredb@immanent.net>
List: port-i386
Date: 09/20/2003 12:36:09
On Sat, 20 Sep 2003, Matthias Scheler wrote:

> In article <Pine.NEB.4.58.0309200920450.18895@rapture.immanent.net>,
> 	Frederick Bruckman <fredb@immanent.net> writes:
> > Who hoo! It works:
> [...]
>
> Nice. Can you perhaps run a benchmark e.g. a "./build.sh" run? My
> P4 2.4GHz supports Hyper Threading, too. But I'm not sure if the
> performance gain is worth the overhead caused by a SMP kernel.

That sounds like the test. I'm fixing to do a round of updates to
1.6ZC; the mac68k cross-build is about last, and it goes quick enough
that I should be able to do at least a couple each way. I'll report
results to the list Sunday or Monday.

Frederick