Re: [perf-discuss] numa: binding process to a process set help or not?

2010-01-20 Thread Darryl Gove
On 1/20/2010 4:35 PM, Daniel, Wu wrote: Thanks Darryl/David, I am not a native English speaker and wrongly interpret your option. Not a problem. I have another question: Will bind also help xcall? We have X4440 with mysqld running on it, which has 4 sockets, each socket has 6 cores. Ther

Re: [perf-discuss] numa: binding process to a process set help or not?

2010-01-20 Thread Daniel, Wu
Thanks Darryl/David, I am not a native English speaker and wrongly interpret your option. I have another question: Will bind also help xcall? We have X4440 with mysqld running on it, which has 4 sockets, each socket has 6 cores. There are totally 18 threads in mysqld (we are using thread pool),

Re: [perf-discuss] numa: binding process to a process set help or not?

2010-01-20 Thread Darryl Gove
Yes, it's not a clear sentence. This is a rephrase avoiding the "not": "It is worth pointing out that binding helps other things besides memory locality issues. Regards, Darryl. On 01/20/10 07:54, David Miller - SAE wrote: Hi Daniel, I believe you didn't understand what Darryl wrote. It's

Re: [perf-discuss] numa: binding process to a process set help or not?

2010-01-20 Thread David Miller - SAE
Hi Daniel, I believe you didn't understand what Darryl wrote. It's probably just a language issue. The sentence below says "not just help", not "not help". What he means is that in addition to helping with locality issues, it also helps with thread migrations. So you are right (and that's wha

[perf-discuss] numa: binding process to a process set help or not?

2010-01-20 Thread Daniel, Wu
Some expert said it doesn't help. http://blogs.sun.com/d/entry/numa_binding_and_openmp it said "It is worth pointing out that binding does not just help memory locality issues." but if a process was bind to a cpu and never migrate to other cpu, MPO only allocate memory to the home lgroup, so I

Re: [perf-discuss] NUMAtop for OpenSolaris

2010-01-20 Thread Li, Aubrey
Jonathan Chew wrote: > >Thanks for summarizing the metrics. However, I wanted to see a summary >of the overall NUMAtop proposal given the feedback that you have gotten, >so I can understand what the project is proposing to do now that you >have gotten feedback. Then I can decide whether I have an