Mladen Nikitovic wrote: > Hi again, > > A followup on pbind... > > I have a question regarding binding a thread to a processor. I'm using the > function processor_bind within an application, but I'm unsure which > parameters I should use. > > This is my current approach > int result = processor_bind(P_LWPID, P_MYID, processor_id, NULL); > > However, I don't think P_MYID will return the thread_id, right? > This will bind the current lwp/thread to "processor_id". It's convenient to use P_MYID, because you don't need to dig around for the current thread's lwpid, the implementation will do that for you.
> I could use pthread_self() just after I created a thred - it returns > pthread_t (which is also an integer as well as id_t, the second parameter > type of processor_bind). Is that a possible (and correct) way to bind a > thread to a processor? > You can issue the processor_bind(2) call and use P_MYID rather than using pthread_self() to find the id. > Secondly, the application takes the number of threads, N, as a parameter, but > spawns only N-1 threads because the main process does part of the work. I'm > unsure how to acquire a correct thread id of the main processs to bind it to > a processor. Do you have any idea on how to do this? I don't think using > pthread_self before creating the other threads would do the trick.... > I think you can use P_MYID for the main thread just like you can from any newly created threads. Thanks, -Eric _______________________________________________ opensolaris-code mailing list opensolaris-code@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/opensolaris-code
