Commit Graph

9 Commits (fc57c1d1a09f765c643c4ae68c3af2fe22d4089b)

Author SHA1 Message Date
David Wilson 1aceacf89e [stream-refactor] replace old detach_popen() reference 5 years ago
David Wilson 3ff6123483 issue #557: support correct cpu_set_t size 6 years ago
David Wilson 8f9c67daf1 ansible: refactor affinity class and add abstract tests. 6 years ago
David Wilson 1f77d24bec Update copyright year everywhere. 6 years ago
David Wilson a2ae4ed696 SyntaxError. 6 years ago
David Wilson a9d48a8fdc ansible: don't pin controller if <4 cores. 6 years ago
David Wilson 4531338b12 ansible: document and make affinity stuff portable to non-Linux
Portable as in does nothing for the time at least for now.
6 years ago
David Wilson de5c050707 ansible: fix affinity.py test failure on 2 cores. 6 years ago
David Wilson c6d5aa29ba ansible: new multiplexer/workers configuration
Following on from 152effc26c9a5918cb7ead7a97fe7fa7f81b6764,

* Pin mux to CPU 0
* Pin top-level CPU 1
* Pin workers sequentially to CPU 2..n

Nets 19.5% improvement on issue_140__thread_pileup.yml when targetting
64 Docker containers on the same 8 core/16 thread machine.

Before (prior to last scheme, no affinity at all):

    2294528.731458      task-clock (msec)         #    6.443 CPUs utilized
        10,429,745      context-switches          #    0.005 M/sec
         2,049,618      cpu-migrations            #    0.893 K/sec
         8,258,952      page-faults               #    0.004 M/sec
 5,532,719,253,824      cycles                    #    2.411 GHz                      (83.35%)
 3,267,471,616,230      instructions              #    0.59  insn per cycle
                                                  #    1.22  stalled cycles per insn  (83.35%)
   662,006,455,943      branches                  #  288.515 M/sec                    (83.33%)
    39,453,895,977      branch-misses             #    5.96% of all branches          (83.37%)

     356.148064576 seconds time elapsed

After:

    2226463.958975      task-clock (msec)         #    7.784 CPUs utilized
         9,831,466      context-switches          #    0.004 M/sec
           180,065      cpu-migrations            #    0.081 K/sec
         5,082,278      page-faults               #    0.002 M/sec
 5,592,548,587,259      cycles                    #    2.512 GHz                      (83.35%)
 3,135,038,855,414      instructions              #    0.56  insn per cycle
                                                  #    1.32  stalled cycles per insn  (83.32%)
   636,397,509,232      branches                  #  285.833 M/sec                    (83.30%)
    39,135,441,790      branch-misses             #    6.15% of all branches          (83.35%)

     286.036681644 seconds time elapsed
6 years ago