[bf1942] 64bit linux BF2 performance stats
James Gurney
james at globalmegacorp.org
Wed Jul 20 18:04:05 EDT 2005
On 7/20/2005 3:46 AM, Andreas Fredriksson wrote:
> The only price you pay for CPU migration of a thread is some
> added migration overhead in the kernel which amounts to very little
> time compared to the 10ms (standard) timeslice of most kernels.
Is that still true for NUMA based systems? I'm a little unclear, but my
understanding was that the main advantage of NUMA was dedicated memory
per cpu, so migrating from one cpu to the other would lose that
advantage. Quoting from the (hugely out of date) Linux NUMA page:
"On NUMA systems, optimal performance is obtained by locating processes
as close to the memory they access as possible. For most processes,
optimal performance is obtained by allocating all memory for the process
from the same node, and dispatching the process on processors on that
node. NUMA awareness within the scheduler is necessary in order to
support locality of processes to memory - primarily by dispatching a
process on the same node through the duration of the procesess' life."
From that, I'm concluding that locking at least the most memory
intensive threads to one cpu would be of benefit on a NUMA system, but
perhaps I'm misunderstanding the overall picture..
James
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