http://www.2cpu.com/articles/ht_linux/
"What can we say about hyper-threading performance in Linux at this point? The database performance was what impressed me the most. This is a big win for Intel in my opinion as we saw sizeable gains on all three testbeds when HT was enabled. While the Xeons obliterated the competition even with HT disabled, once we flipped that magical HT switch we saw an additional 25.5% increase in total SELECT queries per second."
"What can we say about hyper-threading performance in Linux at this point? The database performance was what impressed me the most. This is a big win for Intel in my opinion as we saw sizeable gains on all three testbeds when HT was enabled. While the Xeons obliterated the competition even with HT disabled, once we flipped that magical HT switch we saw an additional 25.5% increase in total SELECT queries per second."