Hyper-Threading speeds Linux

January 13, 2003 - Posted by André Restivo- 1 Comment

Jeremy found this
article on href="http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks">Developer Works.
Just imagine the amount of processor power that will be unleashed
when HT becomes stable.

The results on Linux kernel 2.4.19 show Hyper-Threading
technology could improve multithreaded applications by 30%. Current
work on Linux kernel 2.5.32 may provide performance speed-up as
much as 51%.

Hardware manufacturers won’t be ver happy as system admins will
only have to do some upgrading instead of buying new machines in
order to improve performance by 50%.

From href="http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-htl/">www-106.ibm.com.