Re: AMD X2 unsynced TSC fix?

Lee Revell
2006-10-29T01:28:51Z

On Sat, 2006-10-28 at 12:33 -0700, Andi Kleen wrote:
> On Saturday 28 October 2006 12:15, Willy Tarreau wrote:
>
> > Yes it was, because the small gain of using a dual core with such
> > a workload was clearly lost by that change. IIRC, I reached 25000
> > sessions/s on dual core with TSC if I didn't care about the clock,
> > 20000 without TSC, and 18000 on single core+TSC. But with the sniffer,
> > it was even worse : I had 500 kpps in dual-core+TSC, 70kpps without
> > TSC and 300 kpps with single-core+TSC. Since I had to buy the same
> > machines for both uses, this last argument was enough for me to stick
> > to a single core.
>
> Ok, but it is a very specialized situation not applicable to most
> others. I just say this for all the other people following the thread.
> Again most workloads are not that gtod intensive.

Haven't benchmarked or anything, but isn't X11 also a very gtod
intensive workload?

Lee