[Top][All Lists]
[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]
Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] hardware speedup factor starting from AMD Sempron
From: |
Eric Blossom |
Subject: |
Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] hardware speedup factor starting from AMD Sempron 3000+ |
Date: |
Fri, 16 Nov 2007 07:21:24 -0800 |
User-agent: |
Mutt/1.5.9i |
On Mon, Jul 16, 2007 at 02:38:50PM +0200, Vincenzo Pellegrini wrote:
> hi everybody,
>
> I have got my ETSI DVB-T transmitter code working on my linux box, which
> is based upon an AMD sempron 3000+ (single core) processor.
>
> Can anybody roughly esteem the speed up factor that I would have by
> upgrading to a state of the art desktop processor (maybe a dual core
> Intel Penryn)?
>
> Can I expect my code, as it is, to take some advantage of a multicore
> architecture?
>
> the gnuradiO REVISION i'm using is 3.01
>
> thanks
> vincenzo
At this moment we don't make that good of use of additional cores.
This will change by about January when the new "thread-per-block"
scheduler is in place. At that point we should be able to take
advantage of up to 8 - 16 cores (depends on your flow graph) without
having to rework any other code.
Eric