alt Hacker NewsWithout the hyperthreading (E-cores) you get more consistent performance between running tasks, and cloud providers like this because they sell "vCPUs" that should not fluctuate when someone else starts a heavy workload.
Without the hyperthreading (E-cores) you get more consistent performance between running tasks, and cloud providers like this because they sell "vCPUs" that should not fluctuate when someone else starts a heavy workload.
Sort of. They can just sell even numbers of vCPUs, and dedicate each hyper-thread pair to the same tenant. That prevents another tenant from creating hyper-threading contention for you.