[issue8299] Improve GIL in 2.7
Antoine Pitrou
report at bugs.python.org
Wed Apr 7 00:35:16 CEST 2010
Antoine Pitrou <pitrou at free.fr> added the comment:
[...]
> _PyObject_Call 403 99,02
[...]
> affinity off:
> Functions Causing Most Work
> Name Samples %
[...]
> _PyObject_Call 1.936 99,23
[...]
> _threadstartex 1.934 99,13
>
> When we run on both cores, we get four times as many L1 instruction cache hits!
You mean we get 4x the number of cache /misses/, right?
This analysis is gratuitous if you can't evaluate/measure/calculate the
actual cost (in proportion of total elapsed or CPU time) of the
instruction cache misses. Perhaps it is actually negligible and the
slowdown is caused by something else.
> How best to combat this? I'll do some experiments on Windows.
> Perhaps we can identify cpu-bound threads and group them on a single
> core.
IMHO, the OS should handle this. I don't think ad-hoc platform-specific
CPU affinity tweaks belong in the Python core.
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