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Run the daemon worker on the same CPU as the client

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On a system with multiple CPUs, running Nix operations through the
daemon is significantly slower than "direct" mode:

$ NIX_REMOTE= nix-instantiate '<nixos>' -A system
real    0m0.974s
user    0m0.875s
sys     0m0.088s

$ NIX_REMOTE=daemon nix-instantiate '<nixos>' -A system
real    0m2.118s
user    0m1.463s
sys     0m0.218s

The main reason seems to be that the client and the worker get moved
to a different CPU after every call to the worker.  This patch adds a
hack to lock them to the same CPU.  With this, the overhead of going
through the daemon is very small:

$ NIX_REMOTE=daemon nix-instantiate '<nixos>' -A system
real    0m1.074s
user    0m0.809s
sys     0m0.098s
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Eelco Dolstra 2013-08-07 11:51:55 +00:00
parent 263d668222
commit a583a2bc59
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@ -127,6 +127,10 @@ AC_CHECK_HEADERS([sys/mount.h], [], [],
AC_CHECK_FUNCS([lutimes])
# Check for sched_setaffinity.
AC_CHECK_FUNCS([sched_setaffinity])
# Check whether the store optimiser can optimise symlinks.
AC_MSG_CHECKING([whether it is possible to create a link to a symlink])
ln -s bla tmp_link