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.