On Tue, 29 Nov 2005, Jeff Squyres wrote:
Here's the problem: there are 3 different APIs for processor affinity
in Linux.
Could you please list them (at least the ones that you know about) ?
In the kernel source, in kernel/sched.c, the sys_sched_setaffinity
function appears only in 2.6.0 (talking about stable kernels only). I
can also see it back-ported by Red Hat in their RHEL3 (2.4.21-based)
kernels, so I would like to know if others have back-ported it as
well and if their functions differ.
Both the official 2.6.x and the Red Hat back-ported definition of this
function is:
asmlinkage long sys_sched_setaffinity(pid_t pid, unsigned int len,
unsigned long __user *user_mask_ptr)
(the back-ported RHEL3 doesn't have the __user attribute to the last
parameter, but that's cosmetic)
The glibc definitions of sched_setaffinity seem to change, I already
found 2 of them in RHEL3 and RHEL4, but they both call the same
underlying kernel function. So Open MPI could just bypass glibc and
call the kernel function directly, for example:
#include <stdio.h>
#include <errno.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <linux/unistd.h>
_syscall3(int, sched_setaffinity, pid_t, pid, unsigned int, len, unsigned long
*, user_mask_ptr)
int main(int argc, char **argv){
unsigned long cpus = 1;
int r;
r = sched_setaffinity(0, sizeof(cpus), &cpus);
if (r == -1) {
perror("sched_setaffinity:");
}
return 0;
}
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Bogdan Costescu
IWR - Interdisziplinaeres Zentrum fuer Wissenschaftliches Rechnen
Universitaet Heidelberg, INF 368, D-69120 Heidelberg, GERMANY
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