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Date:      Sun, 13 Sep 2015 16:44:40 +0300
From:      Dmitry Sivachenko <trtrmitya@gmail.com>
To:        Slawa Olhovchenkov <slw@zxy.spb.ru>
Cc:        FreeBSD Stable ML <stable@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: process scheduling and cpuset
Message-ID:  <C6ADA4B7-1126-44A5-94B3-97FA79C8582A@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20150913130920.GR3158@zxy.spb.ru>
References:  <623FA99E-04E7-4D29-953A-61EE7B35CBF6@gmail.com> <20150913130920.GR3158@zxy.spb.ru>

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> On 13 =D1=81=D0=B5=D0=BD=D1=82. 2015 =D0=B3., at 16:09, Slawa =
Olhovchenkov <slw@zxy.spb.ru> wrote:
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> On Sun, Sep 13, 2015 at 02:52:08PM +0300, Dmitry Sivachenko wrote:
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>> Hello,
>>=20
>> I have 32 processor machine (2x CPU E5-2650) running several =
CPU-bound processes (ULE scheduler).
>> 3 processes are 32-threaded, and 8 are single threaded.
>>=20
>> I bind all 3 32-threaded processes to CPUs 0-24 (cpuset -C -l 0-24 -p =
XXX).
>>=20
>> I expect that the remaining 8 single-threaded processes will (mostly) =
run on the remaining 25-31 CPU cores and use (almost) 100% cpu each.
>>=20
>> But this is not the case (according to top(1)):  they spend a lot of =
time on 0-24 CPUs and CPU Idle time is about 10%.
>>=20
>> These are all purely computational programs, in idle system =
single-threaded programs steadily consume 100% of a core, and =
32-threaded programs consume all 32 cores and idle time is zero.
>>=20
>> Is it an ULE scheduler feature or am I doing something wrong?
>>=20
>> The goal is to give a single-threaded program a chance to run when =
somebody started several 32-threaded processes.
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> You don't have 32 processor machine, you have only 16 processor
> machine.
> SMT/hyperthreading don't give real processor, SMT "CPU" have
> unpredicable power and his load depend on load parent CPU.
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> For example, for my case I see such condition (simpliy) on CPU 0 and 1
> (SMT of one real core) with rise load:
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> load 0.1  0.1
> load 0.2  0.2
> load 0.3  0.3
> load 0.4  0.4
> load 0.45 0.45
> load 0.48 0.48
> load 1.00 1.00\


Yes I know about HT.  But how does this explain why I have 10% of CPU =
idle?

If I explicitly bind my single-threaded processes to the remaining CPU =
cores (25-32), they start to receive expected 100% of CPU and overall =
Idle decreases.

I just expect scheduler to do the same for me.




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