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Operating Systems AIX LPAR CPU capacity planning Post 302806745 by MichaelFelt on Monday 13th of May 2013 02:40:07 PM
Old 05-13-2013
I do not think this is going to give you a statistic you really want, but I may be mistaken - as it all depends on what you are trying to "relate" to/with each other.

The physc ($PC) value is already "relative" in the sense that you are computing it (I think) because it is an expression of the processing milliseconds used for the time period (9.1 means 91 msec per 10 msec - which is the PHYP real-time scheduling window - entitlement is guaranteed processing - if requested -, in real terms: (EC * 10) msec per 10 msec.

So if I use 91 msec - that might be 10 processors (9 running non-stop for 10msec, and one (the tenth) running only 1msec, or it could be 91 processors all running only 1 msec.

Looking at user/sys time and comparing them to physc could make sense on Power6 and earlier - where one thread running user+sys = 100 could equal physc = 1.0, but on POWER7 a single thread is considered to only be 0.66 of 1.0 while the other three threads (logical cpu 1,2,3 = even though idle is 100% are considered to be "using" .11 physc each - because there are additional processing components on a Power7 that, by definition, are not being used. In other words, it is impossible for a single thread to fully utilize a POWER7 processor potential.

In short, I think the statistic to use is just physc. You could perhaps give it a weight by multiplying it by lbusy% - but this depends on what you are trying to make "standardized".

Hope this helps (i.e. is understandable)!

Michael
 

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CPUSET(3)						   BSD Library Functions Manual 						 CPUSET(3)

NAME
cpuset_create, cpuset_destroy, cpuset_zero, cpuset_set, cpuset_clr, cpuset_isset, cpuset_size -- dynamic CPU sets SYNOPSIS
#include <sched.h> cpuset_t * cpuset_create(void); void cpuset_destroy(cpuset_t *set); void cpuset_zero(cpuset_t *set); int cpuset_set(cpuid_t cpu, cpuset_t *set); int cpuset_clr(cpuid_t cpu, cpuset_t *set); int cpuset_isset(cpuid_t cpu, const cpuset_t *set); size_t cpuset_size(const cpuset_t *set); DESCRIPTION
This section describes the functions used to create, set, use and destroy the dynamic CPU sets. This API can be used with the POSIX threads, see pthread(3) and affinity(3). The ID of the primary CPU in the system is 0. FUNCTIONS
cpuset_create() Allocates and initializes a clean CPU-set. Returns the pointer to the CPU-set, or NULL on failure. cpuset_destroy(set) Destroy the CPU-set specified by set. cpuset_zero(set) Makes the CPU-set specified by set clean, that is, memory is initialized to zero bytes, and none of the CPUs set. cpuset_set(cpu, set) Sets the CPU specified by cpu in set. Returns zero on success, and -1 if cpu is invalid. cpuset_clr(cpu, set) Clears the CPU specified by cpu in the CPU-set set. Returns zero on success, and -1 if cpu is invalid. cpuset_isset(cpu, set) Checks if CPU specified by cpu is set in the CPU-set set. Returns the positive number if set, zero if not set, and -1 if cpu is invalid. cpuset_size(set) Returns the size in bytes of CPU-set specified by set. SEE ALSO
affinity(3), pset(3), sched(3), schedctl(8), kcpuset(9) HISTORY
The dynamic CPU sets appeared in NetBSD 5.0. BSD
November 2, 2011 BSD
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