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Operating Systems Solaris Questions regarding CPU cores vs rctl limit Post 303034884 by solaris_1977 on Wednesday 8th of May 2019 05:33:19 PM
Old 05-08-2019
Questions regarding CPU cores vs rctl limit

Hi,

I am trying to gather cpu core details and used this script - Solaris & Scripting: Script - Find cpu - model / type / count / core / thread / speed - Solaris Sparc
For auuditing purpose, we want to know how many cores are being used by Oracle, because oracle license will be charged on number of cores.

Oracle is running on one of the zone (out of 17 non-global zones) and it is supposed to use 1 core only, but looks like it is not configured correct. Below is the output from global as well as zone
Code:
CPU Model is : Intel(r)
CPU Type is : i386
Total number of physical processors: 2
Number of virtual processors: 16
Total number of cores: 8
Number of cores per physical processor: 4
Number of hardware threads (strands or vCPUs) per core: 2
Processor speed: 3067 MHz (3.06 GHz)

What is significance of limit=1 in this output from zonecfg ?
Code:
rctl:
        name: zone.cpu-shares
        value: (priv=privileged,limit=1,action=none)

Only one zone is having limit=2 and rest all 16 zones are having limit=1. Will it not be restrcing cores anbd Oracle should see and charged only for one core ?

Please suggest

Thanks
 

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HWLOC-CALC(1)							       hwloc							     HWLOC-CALC(1)

NAME
hwloc-calc - Operate on cpu mask strings and objects SYNOPSIS
hwloc-calc [options] <location1> [<location2> [...] ] Note that hwloc(7) provides a detailed explanation of the hwloc system and of valid <location> formats; it should be read before reading this man page. OPTIONS
-p --physical Use OS/physical indexes instead of logical indexes for both input and output. -l --logical Use logical indexes instead of physical/OS indexes for both input and output (default). --pi --physical-input Use OS/physical indexes instead of logical indexes for input. --li --logical-input Use logical indexes instead of physical/OS indexes for input (default). --po --physical-output Use OS/physical indexes instead of logical indexes for output. --lo --logical-output Use logical indexes instead of physical/OS indexes for output (default, except for cpusets which are always physical). -N --number-of <type|depth> Report the number of objects of the given type or depth that intersect the CPU set. This is convenient for finding how many cores, NUMA nodes or PUs are available in a machine. -I --intersect <type|depth> Find the list of objects of the given type or depth that intersect the CPU set and report the comma-separated list of their indexes instead of the cpu mask string. This may be used for determining the list of objects above or below the input objects. When combined with --physical, the list is convenient to pass to external tools such as taskset or numactl --physcpubind or --membind. This is different from --largest since the latter requires that all reported objects are strictly included inside the input objects. -H --hierarchical <type1>.<type2>... Find the list of objects of type <type2> that intersect the CPU set and report the space-separated list of their hierarchical indexes with respect to <type1>, <type2>, etc. For instance, if socket.core is given, the output would be Socket:1.Core:2 Socket:2.Core:3 if the input contains the third core of the second socket and the fourth core of the third socket. --largest Report (in a human readable format) the list of largest objects which exactly include all input objects. None of these output objects intersect each other, and the sum of them is exactly equivalent to the input. No largest object is included in the input This is different from --intersect where reported objects may not be strictly included in the input. --sep <sep> Change the field separator in the output. By default, a space is used to separate output objects (for instance when --hierarchi- cal or --largest is given) while a comma is used to separate indexes (for instance when --intersect is given). --single Singlify the output to a single CPU. --taskset Display CPU set strings in the format recognized by the taskset command-line program instead of hwloc-specific CPU set string format. This option has no impact on the format of input CPU set strings, both formats are always accepted. --restrict <cpuset> Restrict the topology to the given cpuset. -i <file>, --input <file> Read topology from XML file <file> (instead of discovering the topology on the local machine). If <file> is "-", the standard input is used. XML support must have been compiled in to hwloc for this option to be usable. -i <directory>, --input <directory> Read topology from the chroot specified by <directory> (instead of discovering the topology on the local machine). This option is generally only available on Linux. The chroot was usually created by gathering another machine topology with hwloc-gather- topology. -i <specification>, --input <specification> Simulate a fake hierarchy (instead of discovering the topology on the local machine). If <specification> is "node:2 pu:3", the topology will contain two NUMA nodes with 3 processing units in each of them. The <specification> string must end with a number of PUs. --if <format>, --input-format <format> Enforce the input in the given format, among xml, fsroot and synthetic. -q --quiet Hide non-fatal error messages. It mostly includes locations pointing to non-existing objects. -v --verbose Verbose output. --version Report version and exit. DESCRIPTION
hwloc-calc generates and manipulates CPU mask strings or objects. Both input and output may be either objects (with physical or logical indexes), CPU lists (with physical or logical indexes), or CPU mask strings (always physically indexed). If objects or CPU mask strings are given on the command-line, they are combined and a single output is printed. If no object or CPU mask strings are given on the command-line, the program will read the standard input. It will combine multiple objects or CPU mask strings that are given on the same line of the standard input line with spaces as separators. Different input lines will be processed separately. Command-line arguments and options are processed in order. For instance, it means that changing the type of input indexes with --li or changing the input topology with -i only affects the processing the following arguments. NOTE: It is highly recommended that you read the hwloc(7) overview page before reading this man page. Most of the concepts described in hwloc(7) directly apply to the hwloc-calc utility. EXAMPLES
hwloc-calc's operation is best described through several examples. To display the (physical) CPU mask corresponding to the second socket: $ hwloc-calc socket:1 0x000000f0 To display the (physical) CPU mask corresponding to the third socket, excluding its even numbered logical processors: $ hwloc-calc socket:2 ~PU:even 0x00000c00 To combine two (physical) CPU masks: $ hwloc-calc 0x0000ffff 0xff000000 0xff00ffff To display the list of logical numbers of processors included in the second socket: $ hwloc-calc --intersect PU socket:1 4,5,6,7 To bind GNU OpenMP threads logically over the whole machine, we need to use physical number output instead: $ export GOMP_CPU_AFFINITY=`hwloc-calc --physical-output --intersect PU machine:0` $ echo $GOMP_CPU_AFFINITY 0,4,1,5,2,6,3,7 To display the list of NUMA nodes, by physical indexes, that intersect a given (physical) CPU mask: $ hwloc-calc --physical --intersect NUMAnode 0xf0f0f0f0 0,2 To display the physical index of a processor given by its logical index: $ hwloc-calc PU:2 --physical-output --intersect PU 3 To display the set of CPUs near network interface eth0: $ hwloc-calc os=eth0 0x00005555 To display the indexes of sockets near PCI device whose bus ID is 0000:01:02.0: $ hwloc-calc pci=0000:01:02.0 --intersect Socket 1 To display the list of per-socket cores that intersect the input: $ hwloc-calc 0x00003c00 --hierarchical socket.core Socket:2.Core:1 Socket:3.Core:0 To display the (physical) CPU mask of the entire topology except the third socket: $ hwloc-calc all ~socket:3 0x0000f0ff To combine both physical and logical indexes as input: $ hwloc-calc PU:2 --physical-input PU:3 0x0000000c To synthetize a set of cores into largest objects on a 2-node 2-socket 2-core machine: $ hwloc-calc core:0 --largest Core:0 $ hwloc-calc core:0-1 --largest Socket:0 $ hwloc-calc core:4-7 --largest NUMANode:1 $ hwloc-calc core:2-6 --largest Socket:1 Socket:2 Core:6 $ hwloc-calc socket:2 --largest Socket:2 $ hwloc-calc socket:2-3 --largest NUMANode:1 To get the set of first threads of all cores: $ hwloc-calc core:all.pu:0 This can also be very useful in order to make GNU OpenMP use exactly one thread per core, and in logical core order: $ export OMP_NUM_THREADS=`hwloc-calc --number-of core machine:0` $ echo $OMP_NUM_THREADS 4 $ export GOMP_CPU_AFFINITY=`hwloc-calc --physical-output --intersect PU core:all.pu:0` $ echo $GOMP_CPU_AFFINITY 0,2,1,3 RETURN VALUE
Upon successful execution, hwloc-calc displays the (physical) CPU mask string, (physical or logical) object list, or (physical or logical) object number list. The return value is 0. hwloc-calc will return nonzero if any kind of error occurs, such as (but not limited to): failure to parse the command line. SEE ALSO
hwloc(7), lstopo(1), hwloc-info(1), hwloc-gather-topology(1) 1.7 Apr 07, 2013 HWLOC-CALC(1)
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