Tech Papers

Processor Affinity or Bound Multiprocessing?

QNX Software Systems
Shiv Nagarajan and Nicola Vulpe

White Paper

December 2009

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Migrating systems designed for single core processors to multicore environments is still a challenge. Bound multiprocessing (BMP) can help with these migrations. It improves SMP processor affinity. It allows developers to bind all threads (including dynamically created threads) in a process or even a subsystem to a specific processor without code changes.





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