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SubjectQ: Process creation and soft hot CPU affinity
Hi,

I noticed something this night.
The process executions during a ./configure get spread among all the machine CPUs.
When launching processes sequentially, why aren't they put to run on the same CPU ?
I naively assume that the CPU has just finished its work and it's "hot".
The others could continue resting in their C-states/P-states, or whatever.

To measure the performance impact of the current scheduling choices, I ran a little benchmark.
I ran a time ./configure with/without cgroup CPU affinity and got significant difference.

benchmark_setup() {
cgrp=1cpu
ncpus=8
cgroup_mnt=/sys/fs/cgroup
coreutils_tar=/var/paludis/distfiles/coreutils-8.13.tar.xz

mkdir -p $cgroup_mnt/$cgrp
echo 0 > $cgroup_mnt/$cgrp/cpuset.mems
echo $$ > $cgroup_mnt/$cgrp/tasks

cd /dev/shm
}

benchmark() {
tar xf $coreutils_tar

pushd coreutils* > /dev/null
echo $* > $cgroup_mnt/$cgrp/cpuset.cpus
echo 3 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches
time sh ./configure > /dev/null
popd > /dev/null

rm -rf coreutils*
}

benchmark 0
benchmark $(cat $cgroup_mnt/cpuset.cpus)

Results:

with affinity to 1CPU:
real 0m40.229s
user 0m15.222s
sys 0m9.409s

with affinity to all CPUs:
real 1m20.832s
user 0m31.089s
sys 0m37.582s

Is there something that can be done ?
I just want to start a discussion on this matter, perhaps I'll play with the scheduler if I get a few hints.

Regards,

--
cJ
3.2.0-rc2-Bidule-00400-g866d43c #1 SMP PREEMPT Tue Nov 22 13:51:00 EST 2011 x86_64


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