[PATCH 3/3] score: Add SMP support to the cache manager

[Sebastian Huber]

On 2014-07-04 17:12, Daniel Cederman wrote:
>  > This limits the API to the default cpu_set_t.  Other routines like
>  > pthread_setaffinity_np() don't have this limitation.
>
> I looked at pthread_setaffinity_np() and got a bit confused. I see that it
> takes both a pointer to a cpu_set_t and the size of the cpu set. It forwards it
> to _Scheduler_Set_affinity which requires __RTEMS_HAVE_SYS_CPUSET_H__ to be
> defined. If this is defined then _CPU_set_Handler_initialization checks that
> the number of cpus is less than CPU_SETSIZE. In newlib this is defined to 32
> and is used to size the cpu_set_t struct. So why is the size needed for
> pthread_setaffinity_np if the number of cpus cannot exceed a hardcoded
> constant? I recall that there was a discussion on the list about cpu sets, but
> I'm not finding anything searching.

There are CPU set functions that support an arbitrary number of processors, 
just look at the Linux manpage or <sys/cpuset.h>.  This is normally only useful 
on NUMA systems, but who knows what will be used for real-time systems in the 
future.

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