Re: CPU utilization

From: Ivan Voras <ivoras_at_fer.hr>
Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2007 12:55:26 +0200

Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote:

> By default, 6.2 doesn't schedule processes on the virtual core on a
> hyperthreading CPU.

I'm puzzled why is it different in HEAD - does 7-current have some 
security-related fixes in scheduling, or something similar? I know that 
disabling hyperthreading was done because of security concerns 
(information leakage).

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