Jeff Squyres, le Thu 12 Nov 2009 09:08:45 -0800, a écrit :
> Fair enough. I think we actually agree -- these emails are quite
> confusing. :-)
Ok :)
> 1. Let's not mix thread and PIDs into a single argument like Linux does
Ok, I've just done it :)
but in the linux.h header only, for people who really insist on using
the non-portable linux tids.
> 3. Identifying threads by pthread_self() is Good (is that available on
> all OS's that we care about?)
Some OSes don't have an interface to bind another thread, but when they
do, they provide a way to express that through a pthread_t. AIX's
functions uses kernel tids, but it also provides a conversion function.
> More specifically: IMHO, it would be very nice/useful to be able to get
> +set the affinity of threads other than the current thread (as
> identified by pthread_self()), even if that only works on some OS's.
That's already the case since libtopology :)
Samuel
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