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Date:      Tue, 20 Dec 2011 10:29:55 +0100
From:      Gary Jennejohn <gljennjohn@googlemail.com>
To:        Andriy Gapon <avg@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        freebsd-performance@FreeBSD.org, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org, Nathan Whitehorn <nwhitehorn@FreeBSD.org>
Subject:   Re: SCHED_ULE should not be the default
Message-ID:  <20111220102955.068bb756@ernst.jennejohn.org>
In-Reply-To: <4EEFAB20.4070300@FreeBSD.org>
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On Mon, 19 Dec 2011 23:22:40 +0200
Andriy Gapon <avg@FreeBSD.org> wrote:

> on 19/12/2011 17:50 Nathan Whitehorn said the following:
> > The thing I've seen is that ULE is substantially more enthusiastic about
> > migrating processes between cores than 4BSD.
> 
> Hmm, this seems to be contrary to my theoretical expectations.  I thought that
> with 4BSD all threads that were not in one of the following categories:
> - temporary pinned
> - bound to cpu in kernel via sched_bind
> - belong to a cpu set which a strict subset of a total set
> were placed onto a common queue that was shared by all cpus.  And as such I
> expected them to get picked up by the cpus semi-randomly.
> 
> In other words, I thought that it was ULE that took into account cpu/cache
> affinities while 4BSD was deliberately entirely ignorant of those details.
> 

I have a 6-core AMD CPU running FreeeBSD 10.0 and SCHED_4BSD.

I've noticed with large ports builds which are not MAKE_JOBS_SAFE that
the compile load migrates between the cores pretty quickly, but I haven't
compared it to ULE.

-- 
Gary Jennejohn



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