Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2008 16:23:22 -1000 (HST) From: Jeff Roberson <jroberson@chesapeake.net> To: current@freebsd.org Subject: Topology aware scheduling algorithm. Message-ID: <20080225161855.M920@desktop>
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Also in the cpuset.diff at: http://people.freebsd.org/~jeff/cpuset.diff There is support for cpu topology aware scheduling. This allows the scheduler to know which cores are colocated on packages and what the cache arrangement between them is. We have seen big improvements in some workloads and some reduction in other workloads. However, I believe this should finally close the gap on the few benchmarks where ULE could trail 4BSD. Please prove me wrong if you can so I can continue to make ULE better. Right now the MD code is slightly lagging behind what the scheduler can utilize. If you have an interest in digging through processor documentation to write code to detect more information about the caches please contact me. I'd love some help. This code and the cpusets will likely be committed to 8.0 by the end of the week and then we'll discuss MFCs after some time to settle there. Thanks, Jeff
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