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SCHED_SETAFFINITY(2)       Linux Programmer's Manual      SCHED_SETAFFINITY(2)

NAME
       sched_setaffinity,  sched_getaffinity  -  set  and  get a process's CPU
       affinity mask
SYNOPSIS
       #define _GNU_SOURCE             /* See feature_test_macros(7) */
       #include <sched.h>
       int sched_setaffinity(pid_t pid, size_t cpusetsize,
                             cpu_set_t *mask);
       int sched_getaffinity(pid_t pid, size_t cpusetsize,
                             cpu_set_t *mask);
DESCRIPTION
       A process's CPU affinity mask determines the set of CPUs on which it is
       eligible  to run.  On a multiprocessor system, setting the CPU affinity
       mask can be used to obtain performance benefits.  For example, by dedi-
       cating one CPU to a particular process (i.e., setting the affinity mask
       of that process to specify a single CPU, and setting the affinity  mask
       of  all  other processes to exclude that CPU), it is possible to ensure
       maximum execution speed for that process.  Restricting a process to run
       on  a  single  CPU also avoids the performance cost caused by the cache
       invalidation that occurs when a process ceases to execute  on  one  CPU
       and then recommences execution on a different CPU.
       A  CPU  affinity mask is represented by the cpu_set_t structure, a "CPU
       set", pointed to by mask.  A set of macros for manipulating CPU sets is
       described in CPU_SET(3).
       sched_setaffinity()  sets the CPU affinity mask of the process whose ID
       is pid to the value specified by mask.  If pid is zero, then the  call-
       ing  process is used.  The argument cpusetsize is the length (in bytes)
       of the data pointed to by mask.  Normally this argument would be speci-
       fied as sizeof(cpu_set_t).
       If  the process specified by pid is not currently running on one of the
       CPUs specified in mask, then that process is migrated  to  one  of  the
       CPUs specified in mask.
       sched_getaffinity() writes the affinity mask of the process whose ID is
       pid into the cpu_set_t structure pointed to by  mask.   The  cpusetsize
       argument  specifies  the size (in bytes) of mask.  If pid is zero, then
       the mask of the calling process is returned.
RETURN VALUE
       On success, sched_setaffinity() and sched_getaffinity() return  0.   On
       error, -1 is returned, and errno is set appropriately.
ERRORS
       EFAULT A supplied memory address was invalid.
       EINVAL The  affinity bit mask mask contains no processors that are cur-
              rently physically on the system and  permitted  to  the  process
              according  to  any  restrictions  that  may  be  imposed  by the
              "cpuset" mechanism described in cpuset(7).
       EINVAL (sched_getaffinity()   and,    in    kernels    before    2.6.9,
              sched_setaffinity())  cpusetsize is smaller than the size of the
              affinity mask used by the kernel.
       EPERM  (sched_setaffinity()) The calling process does not  have  appro-
              priate  privileges.  The caller needs an effective user ID equal
              to the real user ID or effective user ID of the process  identi-
              fied by pid, or it must possess the CAP_SYS_NICE capability.
       ESRCH  The process whose ID is pid could not be found.
VERSIONS
       The  CPU  affinity  system calls were introduced in Linux kernel 2.5.8.
       The system call wrappers were introduced in glibc 2.3.  Initially,  the
       glibc interfaces included a cpusetsize argument, typed as unsigned int.
       In glibc 2.3.3, the cpusetsize  argument  was  removed,  but  was  then
       restored in glibc 2.3.4, with type size_t.
CONFORMING TO
       These system calls are Linux-specific.
NOTES
       After  a  call  to  sched_setaffinity(),  the  set of CPUs on which the
       process will actually run is the intersection of the set  specified  in
       the  mask  argument and the set of CPUs actually present on the system.
       The system may further restrict the set of CPUs on  which  the  process
       runs  if  the  "cpuset" mechanism described in cpuset(7) is being used.
       These restrictions on the actual set of CPUs on which the process  will
       run are silently imposed by the kernel.
       sched_setscheduler(2) has a description of the Linux scheduling scheme.
       The  affinity  mask  is  actually  a  per-thread  attribute that can be
       adjusted independently for each of the threads in a thread group.   The
       value  returned  from a call to gettid(2) can be passed in the argument
       pid.  Specifying pid as 0  will  set  the  attribute  for  the  calling
       thread,  and  passing  the value returned from a call to getpid(2) will
       set the attribute for the main thread of the thread group.  (If you are
       using the POSIX threads API, then use pthread_setaffinity_np(3) instead
       of sched_setaffinity().)
       A child created via fork(2) inherits its parent's  CPU  affinity  mask.
       The affinity mask is preserved across an execve(2).
       This  manual  page  describes  the glibc interface for the CPU affinity
       calls.  The actual system call interface is  slightly  different,  with
       the  mask  being typed as unsigned long *, reflecting the fact that the
       underlying implementation of CPU sets is a simple bit  mask.   On  suc-
       cess,  the  raw  sched_getaffinity()  system  call returns the size (in
       bytes) of the cpumask_t data type that is used internally by the kernel
       to represent the CPU set bit mask.
SEE ALSO
       taskset(1), clone(2), getcpu(2), getpriority(2), gettid(2), nice(2),
       sched_get_priority_max(2), sched_get_priority_min(2),
       sched_getscheduler(2), sched_setscheduler(2), setpriority(2),
       CPU_SET(3), pthread_setaffinity_np(3), sched_getcpu(3),
       capabilities(7), cpuset(7)
COLOPHON
       This page is part of release 3.53 of the Linux man-pages project.  A
       description of the project, and information about reporting bugs, can
       be found at http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/.

Linux                             2013-02-11              SCHED_SETAFFINITY(2)