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PLGRP(1)							      PLGRP(1)

NAME
       plgrp - observe and affect home lgroup and lgroup affinities of threads

SYNOPSIS
       plgrp [-F] [-h] pid | core [/lwps] ...

       plgrp [-F] -a lgroup_list pid[/lwps] ...

       plgrp [-F] -H lgroup_list pid[/lwps] ...

       plgrp [-F] -A lgroup_list/none | weak |strong [,...] pid
	    [/lwps] ...

DESCRIPTION
       plgrp displays or sets the home lgroup and lgroup affinities for one or
       more processes, threads, or LWPs.

       An lgroup represents the set of CPU and	memory-like  hardware  devices
       that  are  at  most some distance (latency) apart from each other. Each
       lgroup in the system is identified by a unique lgroup ID.  The  lgroups
       are  organized  into  a	hierarchy  to  facilitate  finding the nearest
       resources (see lgrpinfo(1) for more about lgroups and the lgroup	 hier‐
       archy).

       By  default,  each thread is assigned a home lgroup upon creation. When
       the system needs to allocate a CPU or memory resource for a thread,  it
       searches	 the  lgroup  hierarchy	 from the thread's home lgroup for the
       nearest available resources to the thread's home.

       Typically, the home lgroup for a thread is the  lgroup  for  which  the
       thread  has  the	 most  affinity.  Initially, the system chooses a home
       lgroup for each thread, but  leaves  the	 thread's  affinity  for  that
       lgroup  set to none. If a thread sets a stronger affinity for an lgroup
       in its processor set other than its home, the thread is rehomed to that
       lgroup  as  long as the thread is not bound to a CPU. The thread can be
       re-homed to the lgroup in its  processor	 set  with  the	 next  highest
       affinity when the affinity (if any) for its home lgroup is removed (set
       to none).

       The different levels of lgroup affinities and their semantics are fully
       described in lgrp_affinity_set(3LGRP).

USAGE
   Specifying lgroups
       lgroup_list is a comma separated list of one or more of the following:

	 - lgroup_ID
	 - Range of lgroup_IDs specified as
	  <start lgroup_ID>-<end lgroup_ID>
	 - all
	 - root
	 - leaves

       The  all keyword represents all lgroup IDs in the system. The root key‐
       word represents the ID of the root lgroup. The  leaves  keyword	repre‐
       sents  the  IDs of all leaf lgroups, that is, lgroups which do not have
       any children.

   Specifying Processes and Threads
       plgrp takes one or more space separated processes or threads  as	 argu‐
       ments.  Processes  and threads can be specified in a manner similiar to
       the proc(1) tools. A process ID may be specified as an integer  pid  or
       /proc/pid.  Shell  expansions  can  be  used  to specify processes when
       /proc/pid is used. For example, /proc/* can be used to specify all  the
       processes  in  the system. If a process ID is given alone, then all the
       threads of the process are included as arguments to plgrp.

       A thread can be explicitly specified with its process ID and thread  ID
       given  together	as  pid/lwpid.	Multiple  threads  of a process can be
       selected at once by using the hyphen (-)	 and  comma(,).	 For  example,
       pid/1,2,7-9 specifies threads 1, 2, 7, 8, and 9 of the process with pid
       as its process ID.

OPTIONS
       The following options are supported:

       -a lgroup_list

	   Display lgroup affinities of specified processes or threads for the
	   specified lgroup_list.

       -A lgroup_list/none|weak|strong [,...]

	   Set	affinity  of  specified processes or threads for the specified
	   lgroup_list.

	   A comma separated list of lgroups/affinity assignments can be given
	   to set several affinities at once.

       -F

	   Force  by  grabbing	the target process even if another process has
	   control.  Caution should be	exercised  when	 using	the  -F	 flag.
	   Imposing  two  controlling processes on one victim process can lead
	   to chaos. Safety is	assured	 only  when  the  primary  controlling
	   process  (typically a debugger) has stopped the victim process, but
	   isn't doing anything during the application of this proc tool.  See
	   WARNINGS for more details.

       -h

	   Get	home  lgroup  of  specified  processes	and/or	threads. If no
	   options are specified, this is the default.

       -H lgroup_list

	   Set home lgroup of specified processes and threads.

	   This sets a strong affinity for the desired lgroup  to  rehome  the
	   threads.  If more than one lgroup is specified, plgrp tries to home
	   the threads to the lgroups in a round robin fashion.

OPERANDS
       The following operands are supported:

       lwps
	       Specifies thread. See USAGE.

       pid
	       Specifies process ID. See USAGE.

EXAMPLES
       Example 1 Getting the Home lgroup for the Shell

       The following example gets the home lgroup for the shell:

	 % plgrp $$
	 PID/LWPID    HOME
	 3401/1	       1

       Example 2 Setting the Home lgroup  of  Multiple	Threads	 to  the  Root
       lgroup

       The  following  example sets the home lgroup of multiple threads to the
       root lgroup:

	 % plgrp -H root `pgrep firefox`
	      PID/LWPID	   HOME
	      918/1	   1 => 0
	      934/1	   2 => 0
	      934/2	   1 => 0
	      934/3	   2 => 0
	      934/625	   1 => 0
	      934/626	   2 => 0
	      934/624	   2 => 0
	      934/623	   2 => 0
	      934/630	   1 => 0

       Example 3 Getting Two Threads' Affinities for lgroups 0-2

       The following example gets two threads' affinities for lgroups 1-2:

	 % plgrp -a 0-2 101398/1 101337/1
	 PID/LWPID    HOME  AFFINITY
	 101398/1	 1     0-2/none
	 101337/1	 1     0-2/none

       Example 4 Setting lgroup Affinities

       The following example sets lgroup affinities:

	 % plgrp -A 0/weak,1/none,2/strong 101398
	 PID/LWPID    HOME	 AFFINITY
	 101398/1	 1 => 2	    0,2/none => 2/strong,0/weak

EXIT STATUS
       The following exit values are returned:

       0
	    Successful completion.

       1
	    Syntax error. Nothing was changed.

       2
	    Non-fatal error or interrupt. Something might have changed.

ATTRIBUTES
       See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:

       ┌────────────────────┬─────────────────┐
       │  ATTRIBUTE TYPE    │ ATTRIBUTE VALUE │
       ├────────────────────┼─────────────────┤
       │Interface Stability │ See below.      │
       └────────────────────┴─────────────────┘

       The command syntax is Unstable. The output formats are Unstable.

SEE ALSO
       lgrpinfo(1),  madv.so.1(1),  pmadvise(1),  pmap(1),   proc(1),	ps(1),
       prstat(1M),     lgrp_affinity_get(3LGRP),     lgrp_affinity_set(3LGRP),
       lgrp_home(3LGRP), liblgrp(3LIB), proc(4), attributes(5)

WARNINGS
       Like the proc(1) tools, the plgrp utility stops	its  target  processes
       while  inspecting  them	and  reports the results when invoked with any
       option.

       There are conditions under which processes can deadlock. A process  can
       do  nothing  while  it is stopped. Stopping a heavily used process in a
       production environment (even for a short	 amount	 of  time)  can	 cause
       severe bottlenecks and even hangs of these processes, making them to be
       unavailable to users. Thus, stopping a UNIX  process  in	 a  production
       environment should be avoided. See proc(1).

       A  process  that is stopped by this tool might be identified by issuing
       the following command:

	 /usr/bin/ps -eflL

       and looking for a T in the first column of  the	output.	 Certain  pro‐
       cesses,	for  example,  sched, can show the T status by default most of
       the time.

				  Sep 8, 2006			      PLGRP(1)
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