hyper threading.

[Nick Pavlica]

Hello,

> However even then this is not a good test of HT - the point of HT is to
> improve throughput in multi thread workloads and the benchmark suite is
> basically single thread.    What would be more interesting would be to
> run a test with a constant background load also running.    In theory
> the HT should do a better job of balancing the load between the
> benchmark and the background than the BSD scheduler can on it's own.   I
> don't have an HT box here or I'd try it but I'd love to know how it
> comes out if somebody is up for it.

It would be interesting to see the results of the BSD & ULE scheduler
on 5.4 Pre and 6 compared to 5.3R.

--Nick

--Nick