[ECOS] pthread processor binding

[Ahmed Abdelkhalek]

It may make sense especially on a heterogeneous MP
platform, where you might want to bind certain threads
that do expensive work on more capable processors, and
other less demanding threads to cheaper cores.

--- Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch> wrote:

> On Wed, Feb 14, 2007 at 04:07:56PM -0800, Ahmed
> Abdelkhalek wrote:
> > Hi everyone,
> > 
> > Some pthread implementations allow binding a
> thread
> > for execution on a particular processor or a set
> of
> > processors (google pthread_pset_bind_np). Are
> there
> > plans to include this in future ecos realeases?
> 
> None that i know of. Does this even make sense in an
> RTOS? I've not
> thought about this long enough to answer that
> question...
> 
> Anyway feel free to implement it yourself.
> 
>        Andrew
> 



 
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