Thursday, May 30, 2013

Binding to the current processor

Just hacked up a snippet of code to stop a thread migrating to a different CPU while it runs. This should help the thread get, and keep, local memory. This in turn should reduce run-to-run variance.

#include <sys/processor.h>

void bindnow()
{
  processorid_t proc = getcpuid();
  if (processor_bind(P_LWPID, P_MYID, proc, 0)) 
    { printf("Warning: Binding failed\n"); } 
  else
    { printf("Bound to CPU %i\n", proc); }
}

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