> Date: Thu, 9 Jun 2011 14:42:14 +0200 > From: Kenneth Holter <[email protected]> > Reply-To: [email protected] > To: [email protected] > Subject: Intel Turbo Boost and core parking > > Hi all, > > > I've get a few servers with Xeon based CPUs, which implements the > Intel Turbo boost technology. We're looking into whether we've got > workloads that would benefit from utilizing this dynamic overclocking > feature. > > In order to get the full effect from using this technology, we need to > find a way to consolidate the workload onto a few CPU cores as > possible. Processor affinity is one way of achieving this, but it's > not very flexible. Core parking on the other hand seems to be the way > to go. After doing some quick googling I've not yet come across > information on how core parking plays together with linux (especially > RHEL). Does anyone know if core parking is supported yet, and if so > how to enable it and so forth? > > Best regards, > Kenneth Holter
Have a look at numactl and cpuset. -- Matthew Galgoci Network Operations Red Hat, Inc 919.754.3700 x44155 ------------------------------ "It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get up." - Vince Lombardi -- redhat-sysadmin-list mailing list [email protected] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-sysadmin-list
