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From: Neel Natu <neelnatu@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: How to bind a thread to a CPU?
Date: Sun, 14 Jun 2015 10:02:03 -0700
To: Stefan Andritoiu <stefan.andritoiu@gmail.com>
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Hi Stefan,

> On Jun 13, 2015, at 12:12 PM, Stefan Andritoiu <stefan.andritoiu@gmail.com=
> wrote:
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> Hi Neel,
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>> On Sat, Jun 13, 2015 at 9:00 PM, Neel Natu <neelnatu@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi Stefan,
>>=20
>> On Sat, Jun 13, 2015 at 3:33 AM, Stefan Andritoiu
>> <stefan.andritoiu@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>=20
>>> How can I pin a thread to run only on a specific CPU?
>>> Is it enough just to set the "struct cpuset *td_cpuset" of the thread?
>>=20
>> sched_bind() is the proper way to do this.
>=20
> But in sched_bind() I notice:
>  KASSERT(td =3D=3D curthread, ("sched_bind: can only bind curthread"));
>=20
> How can I bind a thread that is not curthread?

I don't know offhand but your original suggestion of 'td_cpuset' does seem l=
ike a reasonable place to start.

Best
Neel

>=20
>>=20
>> best
>> Neel
>>=20
>>> Thank you,
>>> Stefan
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