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authorSimon Marlow <marlowsd@gmail.com>2011-12-09 10:35:46 +0000
committerSimon Marlow <marlowsd@gmail.com>2011-12-13 08:58:57 +0000
commita02eb298d3f6089e51a43307ffb37e3a8076c8fd (patch)
tree6174e46a959a2449b54e470c8b627e3ba1a277bb /rts/Capability.c
parent55d7931d7fb55865a592f91dfa65435ee2859158 (diff)
downloadhaskell-a02eb298d3f6089e51a43307ffb37e3a8076c8fd.tar.gz
New flag +RTS -qi<n>, avoid waking up idle Capabilities to do parallel GC
This is an experimental tweak to the parallel GC that avoids waking up a Capability to do parallel GC if we know that the capability has been idle for a (tunable) number of GC cycles. The idea is that if you're only using a few Capabilities, there's no point waking up the ones that aren't busy. e.g. +RTS -qi3 says "A Capability will participate in parallel GC if it was running at all since the last 3 GC cycles." Results are a bit hit and miss, and I don't completely understand why yet. Hence, for now it is turned off by default, and also not documented except in the +RTS -? output.
Diffstat (limited to 'rts/Capability.c')
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1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/rts/Capability.c b/rts/Capability.c
index 7ce23a12e6..41efb176fd 100644
--- a/rts/Capability.c
+++ b/rts/Capability.c
@@ -226,6 +226,7 @@ initCapability( Capability *cap, nat i )
cap->no = i;
cap->in_haskell = rtsFalse;
+ cap->idle = 0;
cap->run_queue_hd = END_TSO_QUEUE;
cap->run_queue_tl = END_TSO_QUEUE;