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Subject: Re: SURPRISING RESULTS P4 Xeon dual 2.8Ghz

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 12:26:01 12/17/02

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On December 17, 2002 at 14:38:22, Gian-Carlo Pascutto wrote:

>On December 17, 2002 at 12:50:48, Matt Taylor wrote:
>
>>Actually it doesn't work like that. The CPU has an existing bandwidth of 3
>>micro-ops/cycle.
>
>I was under the impression the P4 was much more limited than that
>(don't remember the details though).
>
>>Now, I am no parallel researcher, but even my parallel code doesn't suffer
>>overheads so large that it can't gain from HT.
>
>Depends on what the problem is.
>
>>You never said what "2 processes" was. Is it one physical CPU with HT or two
>>physical CPUs without HT?
>
>2 physical CPUS with hyperthreading enabled running 2 processes
>
>(The case that breaks the scheduler)
>
>--
>GCP


What makes that case so interesting?  It is going to be fixed soon.  It is
already fixed in
windows.net and apparently in XP server...




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