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Subject: Re: Hyperthreading question on duals, I know it's bad but why?

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 14:19:29 09/19/03

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On September 18, 2003 at 18:32:23, Gian-Carlo Pascutto wrote:

>On September 18, 2003 at 11:06:13, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>
>>On September 18, 2003 at 03:50:11, Gian-Carlo Pascutto wrote:
>>
>>>On September 17, 2003 at 16:03:09, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>>>
>>>>On September 17, 2003 at 14:54:41, Vincent Diepeveen wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>On September 17, 2003 at 14:47:49, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>lower clocked opterons are like $300, so i am pretty sure there is a big demand
>>>>>already.
>>>>
>>>>No there isn't, because for single and dual machines, the NUMA issue can
>>>>pretty well be ignored
>>>
>>>Ignored? You _will_ get a performance handicap if you do so.
>>>
>>>--
>>>GCP
>>
>>Yes, but on a dual it is a _minimal_ handicap.
>
>Last week, this 'minimal' handicap was enough to require a special
>version of Crafty. Now it's not needed for the Linux kernel? Uhh...
>
>--
>GCP


You are hanging around Vincent too much.

I said two things:

NUMA for a dual is not a _big_ issue.

Running crafty on a NUMA dual needs some work to make it optimal.

_neither_ of those statements is contradictory with the other.

Crafty _will_ run on a dual NUMA.  It won't run optimally.  How much will
it lose?  I don't know.  But not _nearly_ as much as it loses on a bigger
NUMA box.

Is this _really_ that hard to follow???



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