- worker_cpu_affinity
Binds worker processes to the sets of CPUs. Each CPU set is represented by a bitmask of allowed CPUs. There should be a separate set defined for each of the worker processes. By default, worker processes are not bound to any specific CPUs.
For example,
worker_processes 4; worker_cpu_affinity 0001 0010 0100 1000;
binds each worker process to a separate CPU, while
worker_processes 2; worker_cpu_affinity 0101 1010;
binds the first worker process to CPU0/CPU2, and the second worker process to CPU1/CPU3. The second example is suitable for hyper-threading.
The special value auto (1.9.10) allows binding worker processes automatically to available CPUs:
worker_processes auto; worker_cpu_affinity auto;
The optional mask parameter can be used to limit the CPUs available for automatic binding:
worker_cpu_affinity auto 01010101;
The directive is only available on FreeBSD and Linux.
link: http://nginx.org/en/docs/ngx_core_module.html#worker_cpu_affinity