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Operating Systems Solaris Need to understand CPU capping in Zones Post 302908889 by jim mcnamara on Friday 11th of July 2014 06:01:06 AM
Old 07-11-2014
We have the kernel scheduling processes to use the cpu:

'capped cpu' means 'use any available cpu' , there is no short list of cpus, just a limit in how much cpu time you get for the zone as a whole. Every minute there are 128 minutes of available cpu on a system with 128 cpus. A capped zone is allowed to use 3 minutes max and the 3 minutes is scheduled on any cpu, since all cpus are shared equally - as in fair share scheduling. This is not like zone-based cpu affinity.

Dedicated cpu means the zone gets 3 cpus all for itself. If they are idle no cpu time is given to any other zone. In no case are those 3 cpus accessed by any other non-global zone. All processes are scheduled against a given prset (fixed set of 3 cpus). Think of this as cpu affinity on a zone basis rather than a per-process basis.

capped cpu is less restrictive. dedicated cpu locks zones (that can potentially do evil things) into a little cpu "space" where all they can trash are their own resources. Great for oracle. For example, a programmer requests a Cartesian product from two, billion-row tables. All the other zones hum happily along while the one evil zone thrashes in its own little pond.
Last edited by jim mcnamara; 07-11-2014 at 07:13 AM..
 

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cpufreq-info

cpufreq-info(1) 														   cpufreq-info(1)

NAME

       cpufreq-info - Utility to retrieve cpufreq kernel information

SYNTAX

       cpufreq-info [options]

DESCRIPTION

       A small tool which prints out cpufreq information helpful to developers and interested users.

OPTIONS

       -c --cpu <CPU>
	       <CPU> number which information shall be determined about.

       -e --debug
	      Prints out debug information.

       -f --freq
	      Get frequency the CPU currently runs at, according to the cpufreq core.

       -w --hwfreq
	      Get frequency the CPU currently runs at, by reading it from hardware (only available to root).

       -l --hwlimits
	      Determine the minimum and maximum CPU frequency allowed.

       -d --driver
	      Determines the used cpufreq kernel driver.

       -p --policy
	      Gets the currently used cpufreq policy.

       -g --governors
	      Determines available cpufreq governors.

       -a --related-cpus
	      Determines which CPUs run at the same hardware frequency.

       -a --affected-cpus
	      Determines which CPUs need to have their frequency coordinated by software.

       -s --stats
	      Shows cpufreq statistics if available.

       -y --latency
	      Determines the maximum latency on CPU frequency changes.

       -o --proc
	      Prints out information like provided by the /proc/cpufreq interface in 2.4. and early 2.6. kernels.

       -m --human
	      human-readable output for the -f, -w, -s and -y parameters.

       -h --help
	      Prints out the help screen.

REMARKS

       You can't specify more than one of the output specific options -o -e -a -g -p -d -l -w -f -y.

       You also can't specify the -o option combined with the -c option.

FILES

       /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu*/cpufreq/
       /proc/cpufreq (deprecated)
       /proc/sys/cpu/ (deprecated)

AUTHORS

       Dominik Brodowski <linux@brodo.de> - author
       Mattia Dongili<malattia@gmail.com> - first autolibtoolization

SEE ALSO

       cpufreq-set(1)

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