From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Mon, 29 Jul 2002 19:18:21 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Mon, 29 Jul 2002 19:18:21 -0400 Received: from pc2-cwma1-5-cust12.swa.cable.ntl.com ([80.5.121.12]:1788 "EHLO irongate.swansea.linux.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Mon, 29 Jul 2002 19:18:20 -0400 Subject: Re: Linux 2.4.19-rc3 (hyperthreading) From: Alan Cox To: Andrew Theurer Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Marcelo Tosatti In-Reply-To: <200207291558.47266.habanero@us.ibm.com> References: <200207291454.30076.habanero@us.ibm.com> <1027978122.4050.22.camel@irongate.swansea.linux.org.uk> <200207291558.47266.habanero@us.ibm.com> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.0.3 (1.0.3-6) Date: 30 Jul 2002 01:37:25 +0100 Message-Id: <1027989445.4050.28.camel@irongate.swansea.linux.org.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, 2002-07-29 at 21:58, Andrew Theurer wrote: > Agreed, we need some sort of irqbalance, and I intend to test with Ingo's and > Andrea's approaches. With that addition, I may even see an improvement with > hyperthreading. But for an rc release, I think it would be prudent to revert > the "new code" for default hyperthreading behavior, and attack the whole > problem in 2.4.20 or later release. Because your personal workload is slower ? Thats overkill to say the least. Learn to use the kernel boot options