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
This commit is contained in:
Eelco Dolstra 2013-08-07 11:51:55 +00:00
parent 263d668222
commit a583a2bc59
9 changed files with 92 additions and 4 deletions

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@ -7,6 +7,7 @@
#include "local-store.hh"
#include "util.hh"
#include "archive.hh"
#include "affinity.hh"
#include <map>
#include <sstream>
@ -366,6 +367,8 @@ void Goal::trace(const format & f)
/* Common initialisation performed in child processes. */
static void commonChildInit(Pipe & logPipe)
{
restoreAffinity();
/* Put the child in a separate session (and thus a separate
process group) so that it has no controlling terminal (meaning
that e.g. ssh cannot open /dev/tty) and it doesn't receive
@ -568,6 +571,7 @@ static void runSetuidHelper(const string & command,
args.push_back(0);
restoreSIGPIPE();
restoreAffinity();
execve(program.c_str(), (char * *) &args[0], 0);
throw SysError(format("executing `%1%'") % program);

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@ -5,6 +5,7 @@
#include "pathlocks.hh"
#include "worker-protocol.hh"
#include "derivations.hh"
#include "affinity.hh"
#include <iostream>
#include <algorithm>
@ -1021,6 +1022,7 @@ void LocalStore::startSubstituter(const Path & substituter, RunningSubstituter &
case 0: /* child */
try {
restoreAffinity();
if (dup2(toPipe.readSide, STDIN_FILENO) == -1)
throw SysError("dupping stdin");
if (dup2(fromPipe.writeSide, STDOUT_FILENO) == -1)

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@ -3,6 +3,7 @@
#include "remote-store.hh"
#include "worker-protocol.hh"
#include "archive.hh"
#include "affinity.hh"
#include "globals.hh"
#include <sys/types.h>
@ -15,7 +16,6 @@
#include <unistd.h>
#include <cstring>
namespace nix {
@ -71,8 +71,19 @@ void RemoteStore::openConnection(bool reserveSpace)
if (GET_PROTOCOL_MAJOR(daemonVersion) != GET_PROTOCOL_MAJOR(PROTOCOL_VERSION))
throw Error("Nix daemon protocol version not supported");
writeInt(PROTOCOL_VERSION, to);
if (GET_PROTOCOL_MINOR(daemonVersion) >= 14) {
int cpu = lockToCurrentCPU();
if (cpu != -1) {
writeInt(1, to);
writeInt(cpu, to);
} else
writeInt(0, to);
}
if (GET_PROTOCOL_MINOR(daemonVersion) >= 11)
writeInt(reserveSpace, to);
processStderr();
}
catch (Error & e) {

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@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ namespace nix {
#define WORKER_MAGIC_1 0x6e697863
#define WORKER_MAGIC_2 0x6478696f
#define PROTOCOL_VERSION 0x10d
#define PROTOCOL_VERSION 0x10e
#define GET_PROTOCOL_MAJOR(x) ((x) & 0xff00)
#define GET_PROTOCOL_MINOR(x) ((x) & 0x00ff)