--- Devdas Bhagat devdas@dvb.homelinux.org wrote:
Hyperthreading. Two cores on a single die.
[snip]
Very true.
Also, the older kernels used to have not so efficient queue management with respect to Hyper threaded cpu's. Atleast, that was what i learned. Only in the later (2.4x and 2.6x)kernels has paralell queue management been made highly scalable with respect to x86(32+64bit) arch.
Trevor
Devdas Bhagat
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