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Date: Sun, 27 Aug 2006 10:05:01 -0400
From: "Joubert Berger" <joubertb@gmail.com>
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Subject: [Bridge] SMP vs UNP performance
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I was running a frame loss test the other day against an rhel4 smp
kernel and a non-smp kernel.  I noticed I was getting better numbers
when I ran the non-smp kernel.  I was surprised by that.  Anyone have
any insight into this?  I am running this with e1000 dirvers.

I also ran a test where I ran the smp kernel with hyper threading
turned on and off.  There, the frame loss numbers were worse when
hyper threading was turned off.  I would not have thought that having
hyperthreading turned off would make such a big difference.

Just trying to make sense of these numbers :-)

--joubert