RE: Intel-Hyperthread-Linux-Oracle

  • From: "Jesse, Rich" <Rich.Jesse@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <bdbafh@xxxxxxxxx>, <hkchital@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Wed, 8 Dec 2004 12:29:14 -0600

And this would depend on whether or not the kernel was built for SMP, =
correct?

Rich

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Sent: Wednesday, December 08, 2004 11:21 AM
To: hkchital@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: Intel-Hyperthread-Linux-Oracle


Hermant,

> How does Oracle on Linux treat Intel CPUs with HyperThreading ?
If you have a busy system that is not bound on physical IO, Oracle
treats them badly :).

Its a matter of how the operating system treats them.
I'll assume for a minute that you are talking about RHEL 3.0 ES Update
2- but this could be for any Linux.

During boot, the OS maps the run queue of the logical CPU to the =
physical CPU.
In this manner, if the number of processes that are running is less
than or equal to the number of physical CPUs, then the logical CPUs
are not used.
As additional processes are scheduled to run, a subset will run on the
logical (hyperthreaded) processor(s).
I am not aware of processor-affinity code in the 2.4 kernels but had
heard mentioning of this in the 2.6 series.

run top - and see for yourself.

Paul
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