Messages in this thread | | | From | "David Schwartz" <> | Subject | RE: SMP question | Date | Wed, 11 Jun 2003 13:14:53 -0700 |
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> I'm building a hard real-time Linux (RTLinux) system on a 2x Xeon > machine. If > I compile and run a 2.4.18 kernel with SMP support, rtlinux hangs the > machine. However, with SMP disabled, rtlinux and all it's hard-realtime > applications runs okay.
> So, I have to deside between these two:
> - Run rtlinux and hard-realtime applications on a kernel without > SMP support. > How much performance will I loose this way? Is SMP *THAT* critical?
You will lose about half your CPU power.
> - Run all tasks in a usual way, no hard realtime, but with SMP support.
> What would you suggest?
If you don't install a kernel with SMP support, you might as well remove one processor.
> Also, if I turn hyperthreading off, how will it influence the > system with SMP > support? Without SMP support?
In a system with more than one physical CPU, hyperthreading is not that big of a performance boost.
DS
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