Wow, great, I didn't know about ZMQ_THREAD_SCHED_POLICY and ZMQ_THREAD_PRIORITY, thanks!!
Francesco 2017-05-19 12:20 GMT+02:00 Luca Boccassi <luca.bocca...@gmail.com>: > On Fri, 2017-05-19 at 11:58 +0200, Francesco wrote: >> Hi, >> I'm using ZeroMQ in an applications with several threads (up to 40). >> I noticed that in the "master" branch of ZeroMQ the background >> threads >> it creates are given a name. That's VERY useful, thanks! > > No problem. Had the same issue myself. One day I'd like to further > improve it to have more specific names (I/O, reaper, shutdown), but it > would require a lot more refactoring so for now all threads have the > same name. > >> However my question is: my application sets the affinity and the >> priority of all threads it creates explicitly. Of course it cannot >> set the affinity/priority of ZMQ background threads. >> Is it possible to add an API to get the pthread_t (on Linux) or the >> generic thread handle (platform-dependent) associated with the ZMQ >> background threads? >> >> In that way my application would be able to set affinity and increase >> priority also of ZMQ background threads... > > There is already an API to set those. Check the manpage for > zmq_ctx_set, and the following options: ZMQ_THREAD_SCHED_POLICY > ZMQ_THREAD_PRIORITY > > Note that as the manpage says you need to set them before creating any > socket, immediately after creating the context. > > Kind regards, > Luca Boccassi > _______________________________________________ > zeromq-dev mailing list > zeromq-dev@lists.zeromq.org > https://lists.zeromq.org/mailman/listinfo/zeromq-dev _______________________________________________ zeromq-dev mailing list zeromq-dev@lists.zeromq.org https://lists.zeromq.org/mailman/listinfo/zeromq-dev
