Re: [PATCH] SMT Nice 2.6.4-rc1-mm1

From: Nick Piggin
Date: Mon Mar 01 2004 - 06:38:43 EST




Con Kolivas wrote:

On Mon, 1 Mar 2004 05:52 pm, Con Kolivas wrote:

This patch provides full per-package priority support for SMT processors
(aka pentium4 hyperthreading) when combined with CONFIG_SCHED_SMT.


And here are some benchmarks to demonstrate what happens. P4 3.06Ghz booted with bios HT off as UP (up), SMP with mm1(mm1), SMP with mm1-smtnice(sn)



Pretty impressive numbers.

How does it go on the desktop when running mprime at nice +19?
How much worse can latencies of the niced tasks become? Any idea?

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