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How seastar invoke codes on different cpus?

I am currently working with seastart framework, and find it claims that seastart can submit task to different cpus.

Seastar claims that it shares nothing between different coers.

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So I think seastar binds differnet threads to different cpus, and make different tasks submited to different background threads(called engine、container or something).

How seastar achieve this, use pthread_setaffinity_np ?

But before task submitted, codes still work on random thread? Just key resources like network socket or storages are distributed to different cpus by coding using smp::submit_to explicitly?

Solution

  • I've never heard of Seastar until now and the picture looks horribly inefficient. As is confirmed by benchmarks. It is way more efficient to have a single stack per thread, since the top of the stack is always "hot" (cached in L1).

    Anyway, yes, to pin a thread to a core you can use platform-specific API. In case of POSIX that would be pthread_setaffinity_np:

    cpu_set_t cpuset;
CPU_ZERO(&cpuset);
CPU_SET(core, &cpuset); // core number starts from 0
int rc = pthread_setaffinity_np(myThread.native_handle(), (cpu_set_t), &cpuset);

    Or SetThreadAffinityMask on Windows:

    DWORD_PTR mask = (DWORD_PTR) (1 << core); // core number starts from 0
auto rc = SetThreadAffinityMask(GetCurrentThread(), mask);