Add Broker::max_threads and Broker::max_sleep tuning options

The former replaces the pcap vs. live versions of the same tuning
option.  If a user does not change these, Bro makes some internal
decisions that may help avoid performance problems on systems with high
core counts: the number of CAF threads is capped at 8 and the maximum
sleep duration for under-utilized threads is increased to 64ms (CAF's
default is 10ms).
This commit is contained in:
Jon Siwek 2018-06-14 12:51:28 -05:00
parent 197ea03f8f
commit e578c1c231
4 changed files with 46 additions and 24 deletions

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@ -171,20 +171,41 @@ void Manager::InitPostScript()
options.use_real_time = ! reading_pcaps;
BrokerConfig config{std::move(options)};
auto max_live_threads = get_option("Broker::max_live_threads")->AsCount();
auto max_pcap_threads = get_option("Broker::max_pcap_threads")->AsCount();
auto max_threads = get_option("Broker::max_threads")->AsCount();
auto max_sleep = get_option("Broker::max_sleep")->AsCount();
if ( reading_pcaps )
{
if ( max_pcap_threads )
config.scheduler_max_threads = max_pcap_threads;
}
if ( max_threads )
config.scheduler_max_threads = max_threads;
else
{
if ( max_live_threads )
config.scheduler_max_threads = max_live_threads;
// On high-core-count systems, spawning one thread per core
// can lead to significant performance problems even if most
// threads are under-utilized. Related:
// https://github.com/actor-framework/actor-framework/issues/699
if ( reading_pcaps )
config.scheduler_max_threads = 2u;
else
{
auto hc = std::thread::hardware_concurrency();
if ( hc > 8u )
hc = 8u;
else if ( hc < 4u)
hc = 4u;
config.scheduler_max_threads = hc;
}
}
if ( max_sleep )
config.work_stealing_relaxed_sleep_duration_us = max_sleep;
else
// 64ms is just an arbitrary amount derived from testing
// the overhead of a unused CAF actor system on a 32-core system.
// Performance was within 2% of baseline timings (w/o CAF)
// when using this sleep duration.
config.work_stealing_relaxed_sleep_duration_us = 64000;
bstate = std::make_shared<BrokerState>(std::move(config));
}