Re: performance differences: "maxcpus=1" vs. "echo 0 > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu1/online"

[Pavel Machek]

On Tue 2008-03-25 14:47:50, Michael Meyer wrote:
> Hi, 
> 
> what is the difference between booting a dual core
> machine with "maxcpus=1" or by deactivating the second
> core at run time with "echo 0 >
> /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu1/online"?

maxcpus=1 : core stays powered off
0 > online : core enters halt.

> I observed a funny behaviour of apache ant: although
> it uses javac which is single threaded, a compile run
> with "maxcpus=1" is actually faster than a compile run
> with both cores activated. But with the second core
> deactivated using "echo 0 >
> /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu1/online" it is even slower
> than with both cores.

Thermal fun? Check cooling.


> Is here any method to get the exact same behaviour of
> "maxcpus=1" with disabling the second core only
> temporarily? So that the second core could be disabled
> before the ant execution and enabled after the ant
> execution?

Patch pushing 0 > online cores into C4 would be nice.
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