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On Tuesday 04 July 2006 02:40, Mike Jakubik wrote:
> Michael Vince wrote:
> > HTT was Intels best early stab to help path the way for their multi
> > core technologies to come into use as quickly as possible for the
> > masses over just the server end.
>
> Exactly, thats why i wouldn't spend too much time bothering with HTT. It
> was a transitional technology for multi core CPUs, which are now the
> standard. It will be interesting how the new Conroe processors fair on
> FreeBSD, the early benchmarks show better performance than AMDs offerings.

For conroe, google the "fair-cache", you may find what should be done
in scheduler, that's one of many reasons why I was saying libpthread should
be stopped. Unless conroe is very special and does not need this 
work.