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Top Forums UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users AIX p5 virtual processors setting Post 302097053 by johnf on Tuesday 21st of November 2006 09:39:14 AM
Old 11-21-2006
Sprellarinn was almost correct. It all depends on you version of AIX! Version 5.2 then 4 physical and 4 virtual is correct! Plus I would consider running it in a dedicated setup anyway, which means the virtual element does not count anymore! With version 5.3 things changed drastically! The word virtualisation arrived and with it came the ability to have many virtual CPUs on a few physical ones. There is a limit though and it comes down to the 0.1 slice rule and micro-partitioning! Think in terms of 10 to 1 this would mean an LPAR configured with 2 processing units could effectively have the execution time of 20 physical processors.

The best way to work out the virtual configuration is to take into account the amount of physical storage allocated to the machine. If this is high (high tens of Giga Bytes) then the number of virtual CPUs should be kept to a sensible figure otherwise the paging out of shared memory can kill the performance. I would suggest that with 4 CPUs then a virtual setting of 8 to 10 virtual will not be a bad thing. However if your TL is 4 (oslevel -s) then turn off the vmm_mpsize_support with the command:

# vmo -r -o vmm_mpsize_support=0
# bosboot -a
# shutdown -Fr

Hope this helps!
 

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PMAP_EXTRACT(9) 					   BSD Kernel Developer's Manual					   PMAP_EXTRACT(9)

NAME
pmap_extract, pmap_extract_and_hold -- map a virtual address to a physical page SYNOPSIS
#include <sys/param.h> #include <vm/vm.h> #include <vm/pmap.h> vm_paddr_t pmap_extract(pmap_t pmap, vm_offset_t va); vm_paddr_t pmap_extract_and_hold(pmap_t pmap, vm_offset_t va, vm_prot_t prot); DESCRIPTION
The pmap_extract() function maps a virtual address to a physical page. In certain situations, callers may use pmap_extract_and_hold() instead, to ensure that the returned page is held. The pmap_extract_and_hold() function maps a virtual address to a physical page, and atomically holds the returned page for use by the caller, only if the mapping permits the given page protection. IMPLEMENTATION NOTES
Currently, the page protection requested by the caller is not verified. RETURN VALUES
The pmap_extract() function will return the physical page address associated with the virtual address va inside the physical map pmap. If the mapping does not exist, or if the pmap parameter is NULL, then NULL will be returned. The pmap_extract_and_hold() function will return the physical page address associated with the virtual address va inside the physical map pmap. If the mapping does not exist, the result is a no-op, and NULL will be returned. SEE ALSO
mutex(9), pmap(9) AUTHORS
The pmap_extract_and_hold() function was implemented by Alan L. Cox <alc@imimic.com>. This manual page was written by Bruce M Simpson <bms@spc.org>. BSD
July 21, 2003 BSD
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