On Jul 24, 2012, at 1:55 PM, Jed Brown wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 24, 2012 at 1:44 PM, Barry Smith <bsmith at mcs.anl.gov> wrote:
> For now you could simply turn off setting affinities when only a single
> thread is requested.
>
> Longer term, I think we want to use CPU_COUNT, then use CPU_ISSET to fill in
> the current set. Then we'll partition that set among the threads in the pool.
> That's what I meant by "inherit" the process affinity. We should never be
> doing CPU_ZERO and adding in counting from zero.
True
But how do you know what cores the other processes on the machine are
using? Couldn't they be anything?
Barry
