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authorEelco Dolstra <eelco.dolstra@logicblox.com>2013-08-07T11·51+0000
committerEelco Dolstra <eelco.dolstra@logicblox.com>2013-08-07T12·02+0200
commita583a2bc59a4ee2b067e5520f6c5bc0c61852c32 (patch)
tree137be66f58b664dbf0aa21138000d711d5e00162 /src/libutil/affinity.hh
parent263d6682224f516aed74286453c5e2e097a38aa6 (diff)
Run the daemon worker on the same CPU as the client
On a system with multiple CPUs, running Nix operations through the
daemon is significantly slower than "direct" mode:

$ NIX_REMOTE= nix-instantiate '<nixos>' -A system
real    0m0.974s
user    0m0.875s
sys     0m0.088s

$ NIX_REMOTE=daemon nix-instantiate '<nixos>' -A system
real    0m2.118s
user    0m1.463s
sys     0m0.218s

The main reason seems to be that the client and the worker get moved
to a different CPU after every call to the worker.  This patch adds a
hack to lock them to the same CPU.  With this, the overhead of going
through the daemon is very small:

$ NIX_REMOTE=daemon nix-instantiate '<nixos>' -A system
real    0m1.074s
user    0m0.809s
sys     0m0.098s
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+#pragma once
+
+namespace nix {
+
+void setAffinityTo(int cpu);
+int lockToCurrentCPU();
+void restoreAffinity();
+
+}