Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote: > Randall Stewart <rrs_at_cisco.com> writes: >> Sure.. dumb question though.. whats the magic cookie to pin >> something on a cpu.. is it a system call or is there a "shell" tool >> that will do it? > > Neither. There is a kernel function to tie a thread to a CPU, but it > is not exported to userland. I was thinking about the kernel part, but now, thinking more, it's probably very non-trivial to do. I though that using sched_bind() could do it, but this only works if there's a specific thread created for some task - I don't know how can something like 'a network stack', which consists of myriad of callbacks and asynchrounsly called functions, be pinned. Sorry for the noise. :)
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