From f47f8e3813a6dda5db94c9704c74e8a809dd2313 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Sverker Eriksson Date: Fri, 23 Aug 2013 16:21:17 +0200 Subject: erts: Speed up valgrind with asynch threads by only letting it run on one core. Valgrind only let one thread at a time execute anyway. --- erts/etc/unix/cerl.src | 15 ++++++++++++++- 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'erts/etc') diff --git a/erts/etc/unix/cerl.src b/erts/etc/unix/cerl.src index 0d45917e4b..41baa323ed 100644 --- a/erts/etc/unix/cerl.src +++ b/erts/etc/unix/cerl.src @@ -283,6 +283,19 @@ if [ "x$GDB" = "x" ]; then else valgrind_misc_flags="$VALGRIND_MISC_FLAGS" fi + if which taskset > /dev/null && test -e /proc/cpuinfo; then + # We only let valgrind utilize one core with "taskset 1" as it can be very slow + # on multiple cores (especially with async threads). Valgrind only run one pthread + # at a time anyway so there is no point letting it utilize more than one core. + # Use $sched_arg to force all schedulers online to emulate multicore. + taskset1="taskset 1" + ncpu=`cat /proc/cpuinfo | grep -w processor | wc -l` + sched_arg="-S$ncpu:$ncpu" + else + taskset1= + sched_arg= + fi + beam_args=`$EXEC -emu_args_exit ${1+"$@"}` # Time for some argument passing voodoo: @@ -293,7 +306,7 @@ if [ "x$GDB" = "x" ]; then ' set -- $beam_args IFS="$SAVE_IFS" - exec valgrind $valgrind_xml $valgrind_log $valgrind_misc_flags $BINDIR/$EMU_NAME $emu_xargs "$@" -pz $PRELOADED + exec $taskset1 valgrind $valgrind_xml $valgrind_log $valgrind_misc_flags $BINDIR/$EMU_NAME $sched_arg $emu_xargs "$@" -pz $PRELOADED else exec $EXEC $eeargs $xargs ${1+"$@"} fi -- cgit v1.2.3