linux-kernel - Re: Two questions about scheduling and threading.

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Date:	Thu, 08 May 2008 11:47:30 -0400
From:	Dan Noe <dpn@...merica.net>
To:	Brian McGrew <brian@...ionpro.com>
CC:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Two questions about scheduling and threading.

On 5/8/2008 11:15, Brian McGrew wrote:
> Also, I know that we're supposed to sit back and let the scheduler do all
> the work for us; but, in the 2.6.16.16 kernel, is there a way to assign a
> specific thread and/or process to a designated processor???  I really need
> to be able to do this because even with the preemptive scheduling, I'm still
> real-time and it's not quite real-time enough!

There are some functions to set CPU affinity from user space:

sched_setaffinity()
sched_getaffinity()

And a user space program:

taskset

All have decent man pages.  They'll allow you to pin a process to a 
particular CPU, or set the normal behavior, which is to try and keep a 
process on the same CPU as long as possible.  There are some other 
utilities mentioned in the related section of the manpages - they allow 
you to tweak scheduler behavior.

Hope that helps.

Cheers,
Dan

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