Power9 Benchmarks vs. Intel Xeon vs. AMD EPYC Performance on Debian Linux

Re:Power9 Benchmarks vs. Intel Xeon vs. AMD EPYC Performance... by Joky on Friday April 13, 2018 @12:02PM (#16831255)

Still: the kernel won’t schedule threads that are waiting on I/O i believe.

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Re:Power9 Benchmarks vs. Intel Xeon vs. AMD EPYC Performance... by sp332 on Friday April 13, 2018 @12:18PM (#16831421)

Ok that's an interesting point. So they'd have to be waiting on a fetch instruction for the time not to be totally wasted?

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Re:Power9 Benchmarks vs. Intel Xeon vs. AMD EPYC Performance... by blattimwind on Friday April 13, 2018 @01:13PM (#16831909)

Blocked tasks are not scheduled until unblocked.

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