[haiku-development] Re: On timeslices and cycles
- From: "Axel Dörfler" <axeld@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 16 Mar 2009 18:00:16 +0100 CET
On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 6:02 AM, Christian Packmann wrote:
> Hard affinity can be very useful on SMT systems by scheduling one int
> -heavy
> and one FP-heavy thread to the same core, to make maximum use of
> execution
> resources.
While that would indeed be a good combination, it's also a very rare
situation to have in a single app. And even in this case, it would
probably still be faster to have both threads execute on different
cores (at least in case of Intel's currently used SMT implementations).
Bye,
Axel.
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