lkml.org 
[lkml]   [2010]   [Dec]   [3]   [last100]   RSS Feed
Views: [wrap][no wrap]   [headers]  [forward] 
 
Messages in this thread
/
Date
From
SubjectDo we need to call calibrate_delay() for all cores/hyperthreads on a socket?

I do not know all the different combinations of sockets, cores, and
hyperthreads out there, but it seems like all cores and their hyperthreads
on a socket should compute the same value for their calculate_delay()
function.

When booting a 4096 cpu system without specifying lpj on the command line,
we spend approximately 0.1 seconds per core/hyperthread calculating the
lpj value for that cpu.

If we were to, on the other hand, only calculate the delay value for the
first core on a socket, we would reduce the time spent booting a 4096 cpu
(256 sockets, 8 cores per socket hyperthreaded) down from nearly seven
minutes to approx 25 seconds. This seems like a very safe optimization,
but I repeat that I do not know all the different potential combinations
of socket, core, hyperthread out that. Please note these are just rough
approximations taken from memory. I am doing a couple of test boots
now without and with lpj= specified on the command line to get a more
accurate approximation.

Thanks,
Robin Holt


\
 
 \ /
  Last update: 2010-12-03 07:55    [W:0.122 / U:0.028 seconds]
©2003-2020 Jasper Spaans|hosted at Digital Ocean and TransIP|Read the blog|Advertise on this site