CPU Affinity Masks (Putting Threads on different CPUs)

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Published on 2010-04-01T20:27:14Z Indexed on 2010/04/01 20:33 UTC
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I have 4 threads, and I am trying to set thread 1 to run on CPU 1, thread 2 on CPU 2, etc. However, when I run my code below, the affinity masks are returning the correct values, but when I do a sched_getcpu() on the threads, they all return that they are running on CPU 4.

Anybody know what my problem here is?

Thanks in advance!

#define _GNU_SOURCE
#include <stdio.h>
#include <pthread.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <sched.h>
#include <errno.h>

void *pthread_Message(char *message)
{
    printf("%s is running on CPU %d\n", message, sched_getcpu());
}

int main()
{
    pthread_t thread1, thread2, thread3, thread4;
    pthread_t threadArray[4];
    cpu_set_t cpu1, cpu2, cpu3, cpu4;
    char *thread1Msg = "Thread 1";
    char *thread2Msg = "Thread 2";
    char *thread3Msg = "Thread 3";
    char *thread4Msg = "Thread 4";
    int thread1Create, thread2Create, thread3Create, thread4Create, i, temp;

    CPU_ZERO(&cpu1);
    CPU_SET(1, &cpu1);
    temp = pthread_setaffinity_np(thread1, sizeof(cpu_set_t), &cpu1);
    printf("Set returned by pthread_getaffinity_np() contained:\n");
    for (i = 0; i < CPU_SETSIZE; i++)
        if (CPU_ISSET(i, &cpu1))
            printf("CPU1: CPU %d\n", i);

    CPU_ZERO(&cpu2);
    CPU_SET(2, &cpu2);
    temp = pthread_setaffinity_np(thread2, sizeof(cpu_set_t), &cpu2);
    for (i = 0; i < CPU_SETSIZE; i++)
        if (CPU_ISSET(i, &cpu2))
            printf("CPU2: CPU %d\n", i);

    CPU_ZERO(&cpu3);
    CPU_SET(3, &cpu3);
    temp = pthread_setaffinity_np(thread3, sizeof(cpu_set_t), &cpu3);
    for (i = 0; i < CPU_SETSIZE; i++)
        if (CPU_ISSET(i, &cpu3))
            printf("CPU3: CPU %d\n", i);

    CPU_ZERO(&cpu4);
    CPU_SET(4, &cpu4);
    temp = pthread_setaffinity_np(thread4, sizeof(cpu_set_t), &cpu4);
    for (i = 0; i < CPU_SETSIZE; i++)
        if (CPU_ISSET(i, &cpu4))
            printf("CPU4: CPU %d\n", i);

    thread1Create = pthread_create(&thread1, NULL, (void *)pthread_Message, thread1Msg);
    thread2Create = pthread_create(&thread2, NULL, (void *)pthread_Message, thread2Msg);
    thread3Create = pthread_create(&thread3, NULL, (void *)pthread_Message, thread3Msg);
    thread4Create = pthread_create(&thread4, NULL, (void *)pthread_Message, thread4Msg);

    pthread_join(thread1, NULL);
    pthread_join(thread2, NULL);
    pthread_join(thread3, NULL);
    pthread_join(thread4, NULL);

    return 0;
}

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