Thomas Fjellstrom <tfjellstrom@xxxxxxx> writes: > Hardware context switches aren't free either. FWIW, SMT has no "hardware context switches", the 'S' stands for simultaneous: the operations from the different threads are travelling simultaneously through the CPU's pipeline. You seem to confuse it with 'CMT' (Coarse-grained Multi Threading), which has context switches. -Andi -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html