Detection of HTT

Kris Kennaway kris at obsecurity.org
Sun Nov 14 20:04:56 PST 2004


On Mon, Nov 15, 2004 at 02:11:01PM +1030, Wilkinson, Alex wrote:
> Why is HTT turned off out of the box ? I thought HTT was meant to be a
> hardware 'performance enhancing' feature.

Only in the Intel marketing literature.

> Why do we disable it ?

Because it's not, for general workloads.  Consult the archives for
further discussion of this topic, which comes up frequently.

Kris
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