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SubjectRe: How can I optimize a process on a NUMA architecture(x86-64 specifically)?
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On Sunday 23 May 2004 09:28, Andi Kleen wrote:
> On Sat, May 22, 2004 at 05:28:09PM -0700, Bryan O'Sullivan wrote:
> > On Fri, 2004-05-21 at 16:42, Brett E. wrote:
> > > Right now, 5 processes are running taking up a good deal of the CPU
> > > doing memory-intensive work(cacheing) and I notice that none of the
> > > processes seem to have CPU affinity.
> >
> > I don't know what kind of system you're running on, but if it's a
> > multi-CPU Opteron, it is normally a sufficient fudge to just use
> > sched_setaffinity to bind individual processes to specific CPUs. The
> > mainline kernel memory allocator does the right thing in that case, and
> > allocates memory locally when it can.
> >
> > You can use the taskset command to get at this from the command line, so
> > you may not even need to modify your code.
>
> Linus also merged the NUMA API support into mainline now with 2.6.7rc1, so
> you can use numactl for more finegrained tuning.

FYI Brett, some Opteron systems have a BIOS option to interleave memory. If
you are going to make use of NUMA, I think you want to not interleave.

Also, if you have a 25% imbalance within a domain/node, the scheduler can have
a tendency to bounce around a task for fairness. That might be why you are
seeing little/no affinity to a cpu (even top might be causing some of this).
Not sure what the threshold is between domains/nodes, but I am curious if it
still happens with CONFIG_NUMA on. If these are long lived cpu bound
processes, I would try to have the number of processes be a multiple of the
number of cpus.

-Andrew Theurer
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