HEADS UP: new cpuset and scheduler topology code.
Jeff Roberson
jroberson at chesapeake.net
Sun Mar 2 08:38:02 UTC 2008
Starting with ULE revision 1.226 support is available for cpusets and more
advanced cpu topology.
As announced earlier, cpusets are a way to manage the cpus a thread or
process is allowed to run on. All processes in the system are assigned to
a cpuset, by default set 1. You may modify the cpus that participate in
this set, create new sets, and move processes between sets. Individual
threads and processes may further refine the cpus they are allowed to run
on with a per-thread mask that is a subset of the set the thread is
assigned to. A manpage is forthcoming, for now you may experiment with
and try to decipher the incredibly cryptic 'cpuset' program I also
committed.
The improved CPU topology code is aware of which cores share packages,
caches, system bus/memory links, which are hyper-threaded, etc. This
allows the scheduler to more intelligently place threads by improving
affinity information and by load balancing across these resources.
Many programs should run faster on dual and quadcore machines but there is
still some tuning to do. If you notice a workload is now significantly
faster or slower please report it to me.
Thanks,
Jeff
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