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SubjectRe: RFC: NUMA modifications to cyclictest
On Tue, 19 Jan 2010, Clark Williams wrote:
> RT-ers,
>
> Lately we've been struggling with some performance issues on high-core
> count (>16 cores) NUMA machines with the RT kernel. During the course
> of troubleshooting this issue, we tried using the 'numactl' program to
> constrain our measurement testing tool (rteval) to a particular memory
> node, rather than letting everything float. Doing so showed marked
> improvement in both max latency and jitter. While this doesn't solve
> our performance problems I thought it might make sense to have a --numa
> mode for cylictest that compliments the --smp mode just added.
>
> The big difference here is that when using --numa, each measurement
> thread (one per cpu) has it's stack allocated from the memory node
> associated with it's cpu. Also, the major data structures for each
> thread (parameter block, statistics block and histogram) are allocated
> from the appropriate node. This is done with calls into libnuma,
> which means this will add a dependency on libnuma.

That might cause some trouble for embedded folks. :(

> The intent is to measure latency on a numa system in the same way a
> well-written RT application would run on a NUMA machine, that is
> minimizing the off-node memory references.

Agreed.

tglx


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