Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Tue, 25 Mar 2008 18:56:05 +0100 (CET) | | From | Michael Meyer <> | | Subject | Re: performance differences: "maxcpus=1" vs. "echo 0 > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu1/online" |
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--- Wander Winkelhorst <w.winkelhorst@gmail.com> schrieb:
> On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 6:23 PM, Michael Meyer > <mike65134@yahoo.de> wrote: > > > > --- Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> schrieb: > > > > > > > Luciano Rocha <luciano@eurotux.com> writes: > > > > > > > On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 02:47:50PM +0100, > Michael > > > Meyer wrote: > > > > > Hi, > > > > > > > > > > what is the difference between booting a > dual > > > core > > > > > machine with "maxcpus=1" or by deactivating > the > > > second > > > > > core at run time with "echo 0 > > > > > > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu1/online"? > > > > > > > > maxcpus=1 should turn off the SMP alternative > and > > > switch to UP only, > > > > optimising some locks and instructions. > > > > > > CPU hot unplug will do the same. But it is > unlikely > > > it accounts > > > for that much performance difference. > > > > > > If he used maxcpus=0 it would make sense. > maxcpus=0 > > > disables > > > the IO-APIC which likely makes a large > difference. > > > But it should > > > be actually slower. > > > > > > There should be actually no difference in > theory > > > between max_cpus=1 > > > and hot unplug to one CPU. Might be some bug. > > > > I had the following time values: > > > > maxcpus=1: > > real 0m1.642s > > user 0m1.528s > > sys 0m0.068s > > > > maxcpus=2 and > > echo 1 > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu1/online: > > real 0m2.579s > > user 0m4.096s > > sys 0m0.160s > > > > maxcpus=2 and > > echo 0 > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu1/online: > > real 0m3.757s > > user 0m3.632s > > sys 0m0.112s > > > > > > What kind of CPU are you using? Some Intel CPU's do > "funny stuff", > like dynamically overclocking itself when working on > a single thread, > or using all of the 2nd level cache instead of > sharing it with the > second core. > > Regards, > Wander Winkelhorst. >
Intel Core 2 Duo E6600 (2.4 Ghz). I do not think that it is capable of dynamically overclocking.
$ cat /proc/cpuinfo processor : 0 vendor_id : GenuineIntel cpu family : 6 model : 15 model name : Intel(R) Core(TM)2 CPU 6600 @ 2.40GHz stepping : 6 cpu MHz : 1600.000 cache size : 4096 KB physical id : 0 siblings : 2 core id : 0 cpu cores : 2 fdiv_bug : no hlt_bug : no f00f_bug : no coma_bug : no fpu : yes fpu_exception : yes cpuid level : 10 wp : yes flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe nx lm constant_tsc arch_perfmon pebs bts pni monitor ds_cpl vmx est tm2 ssse3 cx16 xtpr lahf_lm bogomips : 4791.87 clflush size : 64
processor : 1 vendor_id : GenuineIntel cpu family : 6 model : 15 model name : Intel(R) Core(TM)2 CPU 6600 @ 2.40GHz stepping : 6 cpu MHz : 1600.000 cache size : 4096 KB physical id : 0 siblings : 2 core id : 1 cpu cores : 2 fdiv_bug : no hlt_bug : no f00f_bug : no coma_bug : no fpu : yes fpu_exception : yes cpuid level : 10 wp : yes flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe nx lm constant_tsc arch_perfmon pebs bts pni monitor ds_cpl vmx est tm2 ssse3 cx16 xtpr lahf_lm bogomips : 4788.35 clflush size : 64
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