Re: [Xenomai-help] SMP load

[Gilles Chanteperdrix <gilles.chanteperdrix@xenomai.org>]

Simon Leonard wrote:
> I sort of have a newbie problem regarding getting multiple threads 
> running on multiple cores (quad core). It did work on my previous system 
> (2.5-rc1) but I can't get it to work with 2.5.5.2 (or 2.5.5.1, 2.5.4). 
> Here's my small example:
> 
> #include <pthread.h>
> void* thread( void* ){
>    unsigned long long i=0;
>    while( 1 ) i++;
>    return NULL;
> }
> 
> int main(){
> 
>    pthread_t tid1, tid2, tid3, tid4;
>    pthread_attr_t at1, at2, at3, at4;
> 
>    pthread_attr_init( &at1 );
>    pthread_attr_init( &at2 );
>    pthread_attr_init( &at3 );
>    pthread_attr_init( &at4 );
> 
>    pthread_create( &tid1, &at1, thread, NULL );
>    pthread_create( &tid2, &at2, thread, NULL );
>    pthread_create( &tid3, &at3, thread, NULL );
>    pthread_create( &tid4, &at4, thread, NULL );
> 
>    pthread_join( tid1, NULL );
> 
>    return 0;
> }
> 
> If I compile with
> g++ main.cpp -lpthread
> and run I get 400% load (4 cores)
> 
> If I compile with
> g++ main.cpp `/usr/xenomai/bin/xeno-config --skin posix --cflags` 
> `/usr/xenomai/bin/xeno-config --skin posix --ldflags`
> I only get 100% load (1 core)

You need to use sched_setaffinity to set the cpu on which each thread
should run. Xenomai does not do any load balancing because threads
migrations introduce latencies.

By the way, if you do that with this test program, your computer will be
frozen unless you enable Xenomai watchdog.

-- 
                                                                Gilles.