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Cc: John Giacomoni <John.Giacomoni@colorado.edu>
Subject: Re: pin/bind a pthread to a processor?
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On Saturday 09 September 2006 04:18, John Giacomoni wrote:
> Is it possible to bind a pthread to a processor in 5.5 or 6.1?
>
> I currently have a code base that uses libpthread with multiple
> threads, mutexes and condition variables.
> The problem I'm having is that I seem to be suffering wall-clock
> timing aberrations that I believe are introduced by the scheduler.
>
> Thanks,
>
> John G
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> John.Giacomoni@colorado.edu
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I don't think we have such API allowing you to bind a thread to
a specific CPU, I had implemented such an API for DragonFlyBSD, but
its 1:1 threading is not mature yet.

David Xu