ansible: new multiplexer/workers configuration
Following on from 152effc26c9a5918cb7ead7a97fe7fa7f81b6764,
* Pin mux to CPU 0
* Pin top-level CPU 1
* Pin workers sequentially to CPU 2..n
Nets 19.5% improvement on issue_140__thread_pileup.yml when targetting
64 Docker containers on the same 8 core/16 thread machine.
Before (prior to last scheme, no affinity at all):
2294528.731458 task-clock (msec) # 6.443 CPUs utilized
10,429,745 context-switches # 0.005 M/sec
2,049,618 cpu-migrations # 0.893 K/sec
8,258,952 page-faults # 0.004 M/sec
5,532,719,253,824 cycles # 2.411 GHz (83.35%)
3,267,471,616,230 instructions # 0.59 insn per cycle
# 1.22 stalled cycles per insn (83.35%)
662,006,455,943 branches # 288.515 M/sec (83.33%)
39,453,895,977 branch-misses # 5.96% of all branches (83.37%)
356.148064576 seconds time elapsed
After:
2226463.958975 task-clock (msec) # 7.784 CPUs utilized
9,831,466 context-switches # 0.004 M/sec
180,065 cpu-migrations # 0.081 K/sec
5,082,278 page-faults # 0.002 M/sec
5,592,548,587,259 cycles # 2.512 GHz (83.35%)
3,135,038,855,414 instructions # 0.56 insn per cycle
# 1.32 stalled cycles per insn (83.32%)
636,397,509,232 branches # 285.833 M/sec (83.30%)
39,135,441,790 branch-misses # 6.15% of all branches (83.35%)
286.036681644 seconds time elapsed
c6d5aa29ba
