I am messing around with gcc43's openmp capabilities on an IBM Thinkcentre,
which has a dual core Intel vPro. I am running FreeBSD 6.2 with SMP.
At this stage in the game I am trying to push around the limits of the systems
capabilities, and I was wondering if FreeBSD attempts to offload some of the
threads to the 2nd core. I admittedly don't know the chip architecure or how
FreeBSD handles man threads in SMP, but I'd like too, which is why I am playing
with this.
As the number of threads increases, one core seems to be oversubscribed
according to top (i.e., wcpu > 100%) yet the system is said to be 50% idle (+/-
a few points). The load average also seems to not get much higher than 1.0.
While I am happy with the load handling, I am wondering:
1. why are threads not evenly distributed b/w CPU0 and CPU1
2. is there a way to explicitly facilitate this thread balancing (don't know if
this is related to CPU affinity)
3. what is a good way to push the system?
The program I am running spawns an increasing number of threads from 1 to
OMP_NUM_THREADS, where each thread has its own loop that simply assigns the sum
of j and i to k. My OpenMP-foo is not advanced, but it's steadily getting
there.
Here is the code I am using right now:
#include <stdio.h>
int main (int argc, char *argv[]) {
int i,j,k,m,n;
int MAX=500;
n=omp_get_max_threads();
for (m=1;m<=n;m++) {
k=0;
omp_set_num_threads(m);
#pragma omp parallel private(i,j) shared(MAX) reduction(+:k)
{ for (i=0;i<MAX;i++) {
for (j=0;j<MAX;j++) {
k = j+i;
}
#pragma omp barrier
}
}
printf("%8d threads: %d\n",m,k);
}
return 0;
}
It is compiled and executed with the following command:
% gcc43 -fopenmp test.c && export OMP_NUM_THREADS=1500 && ./a.out
Any thoughts?
Once I get familiar with what 6.x is doing, I plan on putting 7.0 on this
system to see how it compares. Ultimately, I'd like to a straightforward code I
can use to evaluate how a particular SMP system running FreeBSD scales. I know
it is not a "real" workload, but it would give /me some information that I'd
find useful.
TIA && Cheers,
Brett
--
HPC Enablement Group
Louisiana Optical Network Initiative
http://www.loni.org
225-578-1920
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