Re: intel i7 and Hyperthreading

2008-12-24 Thread Mike Tancsa
At 10:02 AM 12/24/2008, ivo...@freebsd.org wrote: Comparing to your original numbers, it looks like you might have some debugging enabled there: the original 7.x results went from 13:57 to Yes, its a regular kernel and things like malloc are the default and from the dmesg WARNING: WITNESS o

Re: intel i7 and Hyperthreading

2008-12-24 Thread ivoras
On 24/12/2008, Mike Tancsa wrote: > At 11:20 AM 12/23/2008, Ivan Voras wrote: > >>I just thought of another thing - can you boot an 8-CURRENT kernel >>on the machine and report the value of kern.sched.topology_spec >>sysctl? This is to verify how the ULE sees the HTT topology of the CPUs. > > > An

Re: intel i7 and Hyperthreading

2008-12-23 Thread Mike Tancsa
At 11:20 AM 12/23/2008, Ivan Voras wrote: I just thought of another thing - can you boot an 8-CURRENT kernel on the machine and report the value of kern.sched.topology_spec sysctl? This is to verify how the ULE sees the HTT topology of the CPUs. And buildworld from current 4,8 and 10 3287.

Re: intel i7 and Hyperthreading

2008-12-23 Thread Mike Tancsa
At 11:20 AM 12/23/2008, Ivan Voras wrote: I just thought of another thing - can you boot an 8-CURRENT kernel on the machine and report the value of kern.sched.topology_spec sysctl? This is to verify how the ULE sees the HTT topology of the CPUs. It will have to wait for the next board as this

Re: intel i7 and Hyperthreading

2008-12-23 Thread Ivan Voras
Mike Tancsa wrote: FreeBSD 7.1-PRERELEASE #0: Fri Dec 19 19:48:15 EST 2008 mdtan...@ns3c.recycle.net:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/recycle Timecounter "i8254" frequency 1193182 Hz quality 0 CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7 CPU 920 @ 2.67GHz (2666.78-MHz 686-class CPU) Origin = "GenuineIntel" I

Re: intel i7 and Hyperthreading

2008-12-23 Thread Mike Tancsa
At 05:22 AM 12/23/2008, Pieter de Goeje wrote: On Tuesday 23 December 2008, Ivan Voras wrote: > Mike Tancsa wrote: > > Just got our first board to play around with and unlike in the past, > > having hyperthreading enabled seems to help performance At least in > > buildworld tests. > > > > doi

Re: intel i7 and Hyperthreading

2008-12-23 Thread Pieter de Goeje
On Tuesday 23 December 2008, Ivan Voras wrote: > Mike Tancsa wrote: > > Just got our first board to play around with and unlike in the past, > > having hyperthreading enabled seems to help performance At least in > > buildworld tests. > > > > doing a make -j4 vs -j6 make -j8 vs -j10 gives > > >

Re: intel i7 and Hyperthreading

2008-12-23 Thread Ivan Voras
Mike Tancsa wrote: > Just got our first board to play around with and unlike in the past, > having hyperthreading enabled seems to help performance At least in > buildworld tests. > > doing a make -j4 vs -j6 make -j8 vs -j10 gives > > -j buildworld time% improvement over -j4 > 4 13

intel i7 and Hyperthreading

2008-12-19 Thread Mike Tancsa
Just got our first board to play around with and unlike in the past, having hyperthreading enabled seems to help performance At least in buildworld tests. doing a make -j4 vs -j6 make -j8 vs -j10 gives -j buildworld time% improvement over -j4 4 13:57 6 12:1113%