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Willy Tarreau f156baf8ce DOC: design-thoughts: commit numa-auto.txt
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Add captures and analysis of intel 14900 where it's not easy to draw
the line between the desired P and E cores.

The 14900 raises some questions (imagine a dual-die variant in multi-socket).
That's the start of an algorithmic distribution of performance cores into
thread groups.

cpu-map currently conflicts a lot with the choices after auto-detection
but it doesn't have to. The problem is the inability to configure the
threads for the whole process like taskset does. By offering this ability
we can also start to designate groups of CPUs symbolically (package, die,
ccx, cores, smt).

It can also be useful to exploit the info from cpuinfo that is not
available in /sys, such as the model number. At least on arm, higher
numbers indicate bigger cores and can be useful to distinguish cores
inside a cluster. It will not indicate big vs medium ones of the same
type (e.g. a78 3.0 vs 2.4 GHz) but can still be effective at identifying
the efficient ones.

In short, infos such as cluster ID not always reliable, and are
local to the package. die_id as well. die number is not reported
here but should definitely be used, as a higher priority than L3.

We're still missing a discriminant between the l3 and cluster number
in order to address heterogenous CPUs (e.g. intel 14900), though in
terms of locality that's currently done correctly.

CPU selection is also a full topic, and some thoughts were noted
regarding sorting by perf vs locality so as never to mix inter-
socket CPUs due to sorting.

The proposed cpu-selection cannot work as-is, because it acts both on
restriction and preference, and these two are not actions but a sequence.
First restrictions must be enforced, and second the remaining CPUs are
sorted according to the preferred criterion, and a number of threads are
selected.

Currently we refine the OS-exposed cluster number but it's not correct
as we can end up with something poorly numbered. We need to respect the
LLC in any case so let's explain the approach.
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design-thoughts DOC: design-thoughts: commit numa-auto.txt 2025-03-14 18:30:30 +01:00
internals DOC: watchdog: document the sequence of the watchdog and panic 2025-02-13 16:45:07 +01:00
lua-api BUG/MINOR: hlua_fcn: fix Patref:set() force parameter 2024-11-29 07:39:38 +01:00
51Degrees-device-detection.txt DOC: 51d: updated 51Degrees repo URL for v3.2.10 2023-11-23 16:26:13 +01:00
acl.fig [DOC] add diagrams of queuing and future ACL design 2009-02-22 16:46:38 +01:00
coding-style.txt DOC: fix a few remainig cases of "Haproxy" and "HAproxy" in doc and comments 2021-05-09 06:50:46 +02:00
configuration.txt MEDIUM: log: change default "host" strategy for log-forward section 2025-03-12 10:55:49 +01:00
cookie-options.txt DOC: fix a few typos in the documentation 2018-11-18 22:23:15 +01:00
DeviceAtlas-device-detection.txt CLEANUP: assorted typo fixes in the code and comments 2024-03-05 11:50:34 +01:00
gpl.txt [LICENSE] licensing clarifications 2006-06-15 21:48:13 +02:00
haproxy.1 DOC: add description of pidfile in master-worker mode 2020-08-26 18:40:53 +02:00
HAProxyCommunityEdition_60px.png DOC: replace the README by a markdown version 2024-05-30 13:53:46 +02:00
intro.txt [RELEASE] Released version 3.2-dev0 2024-11-26 15:33:57 +01:00
lgpl.txt [LICENSE] licensing clarifications 2006-06-15 21:48:13 +02:00
linux-syn-cookies.txt DOC: add doc/linux-syn-cookies.txt 2015-08-11 12:17:41 +02:00
lua.txt [RELEASE] Released version 3.1-dev6 2024-08-21 17:50:03 +02:00
management.txt DOC: management: rename some last occurences from domain "dns" to "resolvers" 2025-03-13 11:49:10 +01:00
netscaler-client-ip-insertion-protocol.txt DOC: fix typos 2019-05-25 07:34:24 +02:00
network-namespaces.txt MAJOR: namespace: add Linux network namespace support 2014-11-21 07:51:57 +01:00
peers-v2.0.txt MEDIUM: stick-tables: add a new stored type for glitch_cnt and glitch_rate 2024-02-08 15:51:49 +01:00
peers.txt CLEANUP: assorted typo fixes in the code and comments 2022-12-07 09:08:18 +01:00
proxy-protocol.txt DOC: proxy-protocol: fix wrong byte in provided example 2023-02-12 09:26:48 +01:00
queuing.fig [DOC] add diagrams of queuing and future ACL design 2009-02-22 16:46:38 +01:00
regression-testing.txt CLEANUP: assorted typo fixes in the code and comments 2023-11-23 16:23:14 +01:00
seamless_reload.txt CLEANUP: removed obsolete examples an move a few to better places 2019-06-15 21:25:06 +02:00
SOCKS4.protocol.txt MEDIUM: connection: Upstream SOCKS4 proxy support 2019-05-31 17:24:06 +02:00
SPOE.txt DOC: spoe: Update SPOE documentation to reflect recent refactoring 2024-07-12 16:38:49 +02:00
WURFL-device-detection.txt CONTRIB: move src/wurfl.c and contrib/wurfl to addons/wurfl 2021-04-02 17:48:42 +02:00