> > The problem is not speed but latency glitches. It certainly should be > > slower than a "real" dual cpu system but it could be slightly faster > > than the same uniprocessor machine with ht turned off. Of course if you > > have latency problems it is not very useful. > > I think its a better win if the kernel understands HT,
I thought it did, obviously it does not (completely). > I have a smp ht > machine and big parallel therads sometime get stuck on different threads of > the same cpu, instead of different cpus. If I had no HT in those cases it > would be faster. Ha! So I was not imagining things. I had some weird problems when trying to run jack (but I was distracted with the latency issues so I did not pay much attention - one problem at a time) so most probably that is the reason. I guess we'll have to wait till the kernel catches up... -- Fernando
