Administrators may wish to constrain the set of cores that BIND 9 runs
on via the 'taskset', 'cpuset' or 'numactl' programs (or equivalent on
other O/S), for example to achieve higher (or more stable) performance
by more closely associating threads with individual NIC rx queues. If
the admin has used taskset, it follows that BIND ought to
automatically use the given number of CPUs rather than the system wide
count.
Co-Authored-By: Ray Bellis <ray@isc.org>
The isc_thread_setaffinity call was removed in !5265 and we are not
going to restore it because it was proven that the performance is better
without it. Additionally, remove the already disabled cpu system test.
The isc_thread_setconcurrency function is unused and also calling
pthread_setconcurrency() on Linux has no meaning, formerly it was
added because of Solaris in 2001 and it was removed when taskmgr was
refactored to run on top of netmgr in !4918.
This commit converts the license handling to adhere to the REUSE
specification. It specifically:
1. Adds used licnses to LICENSES/ directory
2. Add "isc" template for adding the copyright boilerplate
3. Changes all source files to include copyright and SPDX license
header, this includes all the C sources, documentation, zone files,
configuration files. There are notes in the doc/dev/copyrights file
on how to add correct headers to the new files.
4. Handle the rest that can't be modified via .reuse/dep5 file. The
binary (or otherwise unmodifiable) files could have license places
next to them in <foo>.license file, but this would lead to cluttered
repository and most of the files handled in the .reuse/dep5 file are
system test files.
the taskset command used for the cpu system test seems
to be failing under vmware, causing a test failure. we
can try the taskset command and skip the test if it doesn't
work.
