C/C++ codeIn the following program, the main thread uses pthread_setaffinity_np() to set its CPU affinity mask to include CPUs 0 to 7 (which may not all be avail-
able on the system), and then calls pthread_getaffinity_np() to check the resulting CPU affinity mask of the thread.
#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);
}