* [Question] : tie a task to a cluster when it shares memory resources
@ 2013-10-29 17:32 Daniel Lezcano
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From: Daniel Lezcano @ 2013-10-29 17:32 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Linux Kernel Mailing List, Peter Zijlstra; +Cc: Ingo Molnar
Hi all,
I am not expert on the NUMA area and the scheduler but I was wondering
the following:
On numa a process can define a memory policy to optimize access because
remote memory access is suboptimal.
On a multicluster (aka multipackage), eg. Bi-Xeon 4 cores, the scheduler
load balancing can spawn/balance a task to the second cluster even if
the task is resulting from a fork or a pthread_create. If I am correct
that could impact the performances due to L2 cache misses, no ?
Won't it be more efficient to tie a task to a cluster when it shares
memory resources with another task on the same cluster ? and when the
task does 'exec', this constraint is removed.
Thanks
-- Daniel
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