Per core frequency control

[David Brodbeck]

On Tue, Nov 9, 2010 at 5:17 AM, Svein Skogen (Listmail account)
<svein-listmail at stillbilde.net> wrote:
> You did read the "symmetric" part of "symmetric multi processor" didn't you?
>
> It's a limitation of the technology. One clock.

I don't think that's quite true.  The newer Intel server chipsets have
the ability to throttle back idle cores and boost the speed of active
ones, to improve performance on single-threaded workloads.