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25.Dd January 29, 2023
26.Dt PTHREAD_AFFINITY_NP 3
27.Os
28.Sh NAME
29.Nm pthread_getaffinity_np ,
30.Nm pthread_setaffinity_np
31.Nd manage CPU affinity
32.Sh LIBRARY
33.Lb libpthread
34.Sh SYNOPSIS
35.In pthread_np.h
36.Ft int
37.Fn pthread_getaffinity_np "pthread_t td" "size_t cpusetsize" "cpuset_t *cpusetp"
38.Ft int
39.Fn pthread_setaffinity_np "pthread_t td" "size_t cpusetsize" "const cpuset_t *cpusetp"
40.Sh DESCRIPTION
41.Fn pthread_getaffinity_np
42and
43.Fn pthread_setaffinity_np
44allow the manipulation of sets of CPUs available to the specified thread.
45.Pp
46Masks of type
47.Ft cpuset_t
48are composed using the
49.Dv CPU_SET
50macros.
51If the user-supplied mask is not large enough to fit all of the matching CPUs,
52.Fn pthread_getaffinity_np
53fails with
54.Er ERANGE .
55Calls to
56.Fn pthread_setaffinity_np
57tolerate masks of any size with no restrictions.
58The kernel uses the meaningful part of the mask, where the upper bound is
59the maximum CPU id present in the system.
60If bits for non-existing CPUs are set, calls to
61.Fn pthread_setaffinity_np
62fail with
63.Er EINVAL .
64.Pp
65The supplied mask should have a size of
66.Fa cpusetsize
67bytes.
68This size is usually provided by calling
69.Li sizeof(cpuset_t)
70which is ultimately determined by the value of
71.Dv CPU_SETSIZE
72as defined in
73.In sys/cpuset.h .
74.Pp
75.Fn pthread_getaffinity_np
76retrieves the
77mask from the thread specified by
78.Fa td ,
79and stores it in the space provided by
80.Fa cpusetp .
81.Pp
82.Fn pthread_setaffinity_np
83attempts to set the mask for the thread specified by
84.Fa td
85to the value in
86.Fa cpusetp .
87.Sh RETURN VALUES
88If successful, the
89.Fn pthread_getaffinity_np
90and
91.Fn pthread_setaffinity_np
92functions will return zero.
93Otherwise an error number will be returned
94to indicate the error.
95.Sh ERRORS
96The
97.Fn pthread_getaffinity_np
98and
99.Fn pthread_setaffinity_np
100functions may fail if:
101.Bl -tag -width Er
102.It Bq Er EINVAL
103The
104.Fa cpusetp
105argument specified when calling
106.Fn pthread_setaffinity_np
107was not a valid value.
108.It Bq Er EDEADLK
109The
110.Fn pthread_setaffinity_np
111call would leave a thread without a valid CPU to run on because the set
112does not overlap with the thread's anonymous mask.
113.It Bq Er EFAULT
114The
115.Fa cpusetp
116pointer passed was invalid.
117.It Bq Er ESRCH
118The thread specified by the
119.Fa td
120argument could not be found.
121.It Bq Er ERANGE
122The
123.Fa cpusetsize
124was smaller than needed to fit all of the matching CPUs.
125.It Bq Er EPERM
126The calling thread did not have the credentials required to complete the
127operation.
128.El
129.Sh SEE ALSO
130.Xr cpuset 1 ,
131.Xr cpuset 2 ,
132.Xr cpuset_getid 2 ,
133.Xr cpuset_setid 2 ,
134.Xr pthread 3 ,
135.Xr pthread_attr_getaffinity_np 3 ,
136.Xr pthread_attr_setaffinity_np 3 ,
137.Xr pthread_np 3
138.Sh STANDARDS
139The
140.Nm pthread_getaffinity_np
141and
142.Nm pthread_setaffinity_np
143functions are non-standard
144.Fx
145extensions and may be not available on other operating systems.
146.Sh HISTORY
147The
148.Nm pthread_getaffinity_np
149and
150.Nm pthread_setaffinity_np
151function first appeared in
152.Fx 7.2 .
153.Sh AUTHORS
154.An -nosplit
155The
156.Nm pthread_getaffinity_np
157and
158.Nm pthread_setaffinity_np
159functions were written by
160.An David Xu Aq Mt davidxu@FreeBSD.org ,
161and this manpage was written by
162.An Xin LI Aq Mt delphij@FreeBSD.org .
163