Pinning a thread to a core in a cpuset through C

Question

I have /cgroup/cpuset/set1. set1 has 2-5,8. I want to bind a process to that cpuset and then pin a thread in that process to, say, core 4. The name of the cpuset and the thread

Answer 1

Take a look at the pthread_setaffinity_np and pthread_getaffinity_np functions.

Example:

   #define _GNU_SOURCE
   #include 
   #include 
   #include 
   #include 

   #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);
   }

For more details, see the man page.