Date: Wed, 22 Jul 2009 22:33:46 +0200 From: Ivan Voras <ivoras@freebsd.org> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ULE and Prescott question Message-ID: <h47t3h$a69$1@ger.gmane.org> In-Reply-To: <200907221157.n6MBvpKf028533@mp.cs.niu.edu> References: <200907221157.n6MBvpKf028533@mp.cs.niu.edu>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] Scott Bennett wrote: > This is a curiousity question. I'm running 7.2-STABLE at present on > an old Inspiron XPS, which has a 3.4 GHz P4 Prescott CPU. I have > hyperthreading enabled in the kernel. The question is: is there any > appreciable performance difference to be expected with this hardware setup > between the ULE scheduler and the 4BSD scheduler? Or does the fact that > there is only one core eliminate any difference in performance > characteristics? I'd guess the second thing. It's not like there's cache to be shared between cores, etc. ULE might still be better simply because it is more modern. Anyway, all recent (7.1+) versions of FreeBSD ship with ULE as default, and all FreeBSD versions < 7.0 have broken/unfinished ULE. [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAkpnd68ACgkQldnAQVacBchd3wCfWWYyNLnkzaOtFGdwONEAWpSO iZQAnRGHys+/YZ9/G9RtUkBOwXcmY8UU =HsZj -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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