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Subject: Re: Processor affinity and KSE sample code
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On Sat, 9 Aug 2003, Paul Williams wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> I'm trying to pin a group of processes to a particular processor in FreeBSD
> 5.1-CURRENT.  I've seen some discussion on older mailing lists about KSE's
> possibly supporting this, but I am not seeing how to do so using the current
> interface.  Is this possible now or planned for future work?  Also, does

It isn't implemented yet.  I had always wanted to implement
a kse_bind() though.

> someone have examples of how to use KSEs?  The test code included with the
> kernel isn't too enlightening (at least not for a KSE novice).

It's much easier just to use libpthread^Wlibkse and threads.
Scope system threads get their own KSE, while scope process
threads all run on a set of N kses (where N = kern.threads.virtual_cpu).

-- 
Dan Eischen