PTHREAD_SETAFFINITY_NP

NAME

SYNOPSIS

#define _GNU_SOURCE
#include <pthread.h>

int pthread_setaffinity_np(pthread_t thread, size_t cpusetsize,
                           const cpu_set_t *cpuset);
int pthread_getaffinity_np(pthread_t thread, size_t cpusetsize,
                           cpu_set_t *cpuset);

Compile and link with -pthread.

DESCRIPTION

The pthread_getaffinity_np() function returns the CPU affinity mask of the thread thread in the buffer pointed to by cpuset.

For more details on CPU affinity masks, see sched_setaffinity(2). For a description of a set of macros that can be used to manipulate and inspect CPU sets, see CPU_SET(3).

The argument cpusetsize is the length (in bytes) of the buffer pointed to by cpuset. Typically, this argument would be specified as sizeof(cpu_set_t). (It may be some other value, if using the macros described in CPU_SET(3) for dynamically allocating a CPU set.)  

RETURN VALUE

ERRORS

EFAULT

A supplied memory address was invalid.

EINVAL

(pthread_setaffinity_np()) The affinity bit mask mask contains no processors that are currently physically on the system and permitted to the thread according to any restrictions that may be imposed by the "cpuset" mechanism described in cpuset(7).

EINVAL

(pthread_setaffinity_np()) cpuset specified a CPU that was outside the set supported by the kernel. (The kernel configuration option CONFIG_NR_CPUS defines the range of the set supported by the kernel data type used to represent CPU sets.)

EINVAL

(pthread_getaffinity_np()) cpusetsize is smaller than the size of the affinity mask used by the kernel.

ESRCH

No thread with the ID thread could be found.

VERSIONS

CONFORMING TO

NOTES

These functions are implemented on top of the sched_setaffinity(2) and sched_getaffinity(2) system calls.

In glibc 2.3.3 only, versions of these functions were provided that did not have a cpusetsize argument. Instead the CPU set size given to the underlying system calls was always sizeof(cpu_set_t).

A new thread created by pthread_create() inherits a copy of its creator's CPU affinity mask.  

EXAMPLE

#define _GNU_SOURCE
#include <pthread.h>
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <errno.h>

#define handle_error_en(en, msg) \
        do { errno = en; perror(msg); exit(EXIT_FAILURE); } while (0)

int
main(int argc, char *argv[])
{
    int s, j;
    cpu_set_t cpuset;
    pthread_t thread;

    thread = pthread_self();

    /* Set affinity mask to include CPUs 0 to 7 */

    CPU_ZERO(&cpuset);
    for (j = 0; j < 8; j++)
        CPU_SET(j, &cpuset);

    s = pthread_setaffinity_np(thread, sizeof(cpu_set_t), &cpuset);
    if (s != 0)
        handle_error_en(s, "pthread_setaffinity_np");

    /* Check the actual affinity mask assigned to the thread */

    s = pthread_getaffinity_np(thread, sizeof(cpu_set_t), &cpuset);
    if (s != 0)
        handle_error_en(s, "pthread_getaffinity_np");

    printf("Set returned by pthread_getaffinity_np() contained:\n");
    for (j = 0; j < CPU_SETSIZE; j++)
        if (CPU_ISSET(j, &cpuset))
            printf("    CPU %d\n", j);

    exit(EXIT_SUCCESS);
}

SEE ALSO

COLOPHON