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Subject: Re: [PATCH] 2.6.0 batch scheduling, HT aware
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In article <3FED4838.6050908@kolumbus.fi>,
=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Mika_Penttil=E4?=  <mika.penttila@kolumbus.fi> wrote:

| heh...and the situation gets even worse when you add cpus, with 16way 
| you get only 1/16 of the speed ;)

No, not when you add CPUs, when you add siblings. There's a big
difference, since sibs compete for cache on the chip, and some execution
units (FPU?).
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bill davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>
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Doing interesting things with little computers since 1979.