Date: Tue, 9 Nov 2010 09:54:05 -0800 From: David Brodbeck <gull@gull.us> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Per core frequency control Message-ID: <AANLkTikBFoKBprozoi2%2BUyCPy9mqx094NJmWEgMtod-N@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4CD949D7.6030003@stillbilde.net> References: <201011091256.51140.naylor.b.david@gmail.com> <4CD949D7.6030003@stillbilde.net>
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On Tue, Nov 9, 2010 at 5:17 AM, Svein Skogen (Listmail account) <svein-listmail@stillbilde.net> wrote: > You did read the "symmetric" part of "symmetric multi processor" didn't you? > > It's a limitation of the technology. One clock. I don't think that's quite true. The newer Intel server chipsets have the ability to throttle back idle cores and boost the speed of active ones, to improve performance on single-threaded workloads.
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