Jeff Squyres, le Thu 12 Nov 2009 08:28:32 -0800, a écrit : > One thing to not forget is that some (many?) applications don't care a > whit about portability to other OS's. You view feature X as a > portability horror; they view it as a feature. > > Hence, they may actually *want* to take advantage of the ability to > pin a specific thread (that is not the current thread).
I'm not saying pinning a specific thread is a horror. I'm saying expressing which thread should be bound through tids instead of pthread_t is. The only sane way I could see an application use tids is a monitoring application that looks into /proc/*/task/* . In that case, ok we can expose the hwloc_linux_set_tid_cpubind function in a hwloc/linux.h header, and we need it for complete PLPA support anyway. What I'm against is even mentioning such thing in the main hwloc.h; tid vs pid vs pthread_t has been confused enough by Linus before the 2.6 fix (to the point that I still see parallel programming courses explaining the 2.4 semantic...) Samuel
