Re: Dragonfly and Hyperthreading....

[Matthew Dillon <dillon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

:On Sun, Feb 20, 2005 at 12:35:22PM -0500, EM1897@xxxxxxx wrote:
:> Does dfly, in its current state of development, yet take 
:> advantage of hyperthreading (single processor) within 
:> its kernel processes? My particular interest is networking
:
:Nope. Don't expect any gains from HTT even for userland, it's generally
:not worth it.
:
:Joerg

    I don't expect we will be doing any serious hyperthread-specific
    development.  The cpu makers are clearly moving towards multi-core
    and the performance boost you get with hyperthreading is fairly small
    relative to what you get with multi-core.

					-Matt
					Matthew Dillon 
					<dillon@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>