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Re: pthread processor binding
- From: Ahmed Abdelkhalek <oneshotawp at yahoo dot com>
- To: ecos-discuss at ecos dot sourceware dot org
- Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2007 18:28:25 -0800 (PST)
- Subject: Re: [ECOS] pthread processor binding
It may make sense especially on a heterogeneous MP
platform, where you might want to bind certain threads
that do expensive work on more capable processors, and
other less demanding threads to cheaper cores.
--- Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch> wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 14, 2007 at 04:07:56PM -0800, Ahmed
> Abdelkhalek wrote:
> > Hi everyone,
> >
> > Some pthread implementations allow binding a
> thread
> > for execution on a particular processor or a set
> of
> > processors (google pthread_pset_bind_np). Are
> there
> > plans to include this in future ecos realeases?
>
> None that i know of. Does this even make sense in an
> RTOS? I've not
> thought about this long enough to answer that
> question...
>
> Anyway feel free to implement it yourself.
>
> Andrew
>
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