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From: Pete French <petefrench@ticketswitch.com>
Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2006 15:59:36 +0000
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Subject: Re: How is hyperthreading handled on amd64?
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> Again, not what I'm seeing here.  It appears as if the machine behaves
> identically no matter what machdep.hyperthreading_allowed is set to.
> The machine I'm testing on only has a single physical processor.
>
> I've been running ubench multiple times to test this, and I see processes
> on CPUs 1 and 0 no matter what I set the above sysctl to.  I also don't
> see any difference in ubench's performance numbers.

Actually, I just upgraded this machine to 6.1 and now I am seeing much
the same thing - no matter what I set machdep.hyperthreading_allowed
and machdep.hlt_logical_cpu to I still see stuff on both CPUs. I havent
doe any performance measurements though.

-pete.