Setting CPU affinity to process( Freebsd smp kernel)

[Kunze, Aaron]

Hello!

Does anyone know if this will change any time soon?  For example, is
anyone working on exposing affinity to user-space applications via
extensions of the pthreads interface?  

Sorry to reply to such an old thread...

Aaron

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On Monday 20 November 2006 06:24, Ashok TM wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> Is there a way to set   a process's CPU affinity  with  freebsd  smp
kernel.
>  By doing so a process is bound to and will only run on the processor
(where
> the affinity was set ) even though the other processors are free.
(similar
> to sched_setaffinity available on Linux kernel) .
> 
> Does  freebsd smp scheduler supports setting affinity?

Yes, but currently only in the kernel.

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John Baldwin


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