On Thu, 31 Oct 2002 09:06:25 -0800 (PST) shino korah <shino_korah@yahoo.com> wrote: > This results shows HT improves performance if we have > 4 tasks on DP system and performance is hit if we use > 2 tasks on a DP system. Probably the two tasks were scheduled in the same physical CPU, on each HW thread, leaving the other CPU idle. > I did use kernel 2.4.9 > > I wrote this to make sure my assumptions are correct > and I'm getting performance as expected.Correct me if > I'm wrong. Your results are to be expected. Try with Ingo Molnar's HT-aware scheduler patch. ~velco -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/