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Re: timing parallel programs

#909
From: Carl Kesselman
Date: Sat, 24 Feb 1990 07:31
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No, no no. The responses being sent are wrong.  How about RTFM.  There
is a facility called tmp_affinity.  You can use this to ensure that a
process runs on a specific processor.  If you have the appropiate
kernel configuration, this can be done without root permission.  You
might also want to dissable swapping and pff reduction of the working
set using the vm_ctl system call.  This does not completly free you
from interaction with other programs, but it is pretty good.  In
particular, you still must share the system bus and disk controllers
with other processes.  In addition, you should always leave a
processor or two free to handle interupts, network traffic and the
like.  NOTE: there is about a 20 microsecond overhead if you use the
function call interface described in the manual page.  There is also a
set of macros defined that can allow you to access the clock in about
6 usecs.


Carl
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From: carl@aerospace.aero.org (Carl Kesselman)
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Subject: Re: timing parallel programs
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Date: 24 Feb 90 07:31:10 GMT
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