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Re: Performance with Intel Foster chip
- From: Mark Hahn <hahn at physics dot mcmaster dot ca>
- To: Thomas Hiller <thomas dot hiller at sap dot com>
- Cc: <gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org>
- Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2002 12:23:28 -0500 (EST)
- Subject: Re: Performance with Intel Foster chip
> I believe these units are visiable via hyperthreading functionallity, so
> any code that is multithreaded can take advantage of that (with some kernel
> side tunning).
HT simply turns a single processor, whose internal functional units
are often idle or stalled, into two processors. the hope is to "soak up"
some of those idle units, and/or to overlap stalled and busy areas.
the OS interface is almost exactly like you simply doubled each CPU -
you have to boot them, appear to have separate registers, mmu context,
bios suddenly shows 2x, etc.
I don't see any involvement of gcc, except that it lessens the
accuracy of the cost predictions that drive instruction selection.
OTOH, is anyone working on gcc support for openMP-like thread awareness?
regards, mark hahn.