Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2011 02:14:03 -0500 From: Yousuf Khan User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:7.0.1) Gecko/20110929 Thunderbird/7.0.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.chips,comp.sys.intel Subject: A quick look at Bulldozer thread scheduling Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit NNTP-Posting-Host: bas1-ottawa01-1176118427.dsl.bell.ca Message-ID: <4ebb79bd$1@news.bnb-lp.com> X-Trace: news.bnb-lp.com 1320909245 bas1-ottawa01-1176118427.dsl.bell.ca (10 Nov 2011 02:14:05 -0400) Organization: Send abuse or DMCA complaints to abuse@bnb-lp.com Lines: 7 X-Authenticated-User: vfa100 X-DMCA-Complaints: Send abuse or DMCA complaints to abuse@bnb-lp.com X-DMCA-Complaints: The subject line should contain only the 4 letters DMCA Path: csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!newsfeed.hal-mli.net!feeder3.hal-mli.net!newsfeed.hal-mli.net!feeder1.hal-mli.net!news.glorb.com!news.bnb-lp.com!not-for-mail Xref: x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.chips:115 comp.sys.intel:136 It looks like AMD could've saved themselves a lot of embarrassment by simply making the secondary cores in each module look like an Intel Hyperthreading thread rather than simply as another full core. A quick look at Bulldozer thread scheduling - The Tech Report - Page 1 http://techreport.com/articles.x/21865