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Date:      Wed, 11 Sep 2019 10:11:45 -0700
From:      Mark Millard <marklmi@yahoo.com>
To:        Mark Johnston <markj@freebsd.org>
Cc:        FreeBSD Current <freebsd-current@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: "cpuset -n prefer:?" --what values for "?" are supposed to be allowed? (only 1 is, despite two numa domains)
Message-ID:  <3CE4AEB7-E32C-49BD-8C75-71AB8739BAEC@yahoo.com>
In-Reply-To: <20190911151512.GB17992@raichu>
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On 2019-Sep-11, at 08:15, Mark Johnston <markj at freebsd.org> wrote:

> On Wed, Sep 11, 2019 at 07:57:26AM -0700, Mark Millard wrote:
>>=20
>>=20
>> On 2019-Sep-11, at 07:31, Mark Johnston <markj at freebsd.org> wrote:
>>=20
>>> On Tue, Sep 10, 2019 at 10:58:05PM -0700, Mark Millard wrote:
>>>> In a context with:
>>>>=20
>>>> # cpuset -g
>>>> pid -1 mask: 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, =
16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27
>>>> pid -1 domain policy: first-touch mask: 0, 1
>>>>=20
>>>> I get:
>>>>=20
>>>> # cpuset -l0 -n prefer:0 COMMAND
>>>> cpuset: setdomain: Invalid argument
>>>>=20
>>>> # cpuset -l0 -n prefer:2 COMMAND
>>>> cpuset: setdomain: Invalid argument
>>>>=20
>>>> But one prefer:? value does allow the COMMAND
>>>> to run:
>>>>=20
>>>> # cpuset -l0 -n prefer:1 COMMAND
>>>>=20
>>>> This seem odd to me. Am I missing something?
>>>>=20
>>>> For reference: I'm using a ThreadRipper 1950X
>>>> with a head -r351227 based context for this
>>>> activity. The above happens to have been run
>>>> in a Windows 10 Pro HyperV session, instead
>>>> of in a native-boot of the same media. (A
>>>> native-boot would have had 32 CPUs.)
>>>=20
>>> Can you please show the output of "sysctl vm.phys_segs" from this
>>> setup?
>>=20
>> Sure:
>=20
> I was wondering if you had only one domain populated, but it seems not
> to be the case.  Could you try updating to r351672 or later and see if
> the behaviour persists?

It may be a bit before I do that.

FYI: I had set MAXMEMDOM to match the number of
actual domains for the context:

/usr/src/sys/amd64/conf/GENERIC-DBG:options     MAXMEMDOM=3D2
/usr/src/sys/amd64/conf/GENERIC-NODBG:options   MAXMEMDOM=3D2

(These kernel configuration files include GENERIC.)

=3D=3D=3D
Mark Millard
marklmi at yahoo.com
( dsl-only.net went
away in early 2018-Mar)




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