Re: cpu scaling questions

[Dave Jones <davej redhat com>]

On Mon, Oct 02, 2006 at 03:44:02PM -0400, Thomas J. Baker wrote:

 > Just curious - it must also a bug that under FC5, with two hyperthreaded
 > Xeon CPUs, all four logical processors scale independently?

Yes. They should scale in pairs. That is, if you're using a real
scaling driver, and not p4-clockmod.  With p4-clockmod each
core is independant, because it's not really scaling, it's inserting
waitstates in each clock tick per 'thread'.

	Dave

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