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Re:Disable SMT/Hyperthreading in all Intel BIOSes by gruez on Thursday August 23, 2018 @04:00PM (#17830261)
>If the only real solution is to turn off HT/SMT that, seen positively, should net us a lot faster VMs then...

you also doubled the cost of each VM (in terms of cpu), but you didn't double the performance of each VM, so it's a net negative.

Re:Disable SMT/Hyperthreading in all Intel BIOSes by Roritharr on Thursday August 23, 2018 @04:06PM (#17830295)
It might be Intel in the end having to pay that cost...