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authorDimitri Staessens <dimitri.staessens@ugent.be>2018-04-02 08:19:54 +0200
committerSander Vrijders <sander.vrijders@ugent.be>2018-04-05 10:31:52 +0200
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ipcpd: Enable locking threads to a CPU core
This adds a function that locks a thread to a random core. This greatly improves performance on multi-cpu systems. There is no portable way to do this, this only implements it for GNU/Linux. Signed-off-by: Dimitri Staessens <dimitri.staessens@ugent.be> Signed-off-by: Sander Vrijders <sander.vrijders@ugent.be>
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diff --git a/src/ipcpd/ipcp.h b/src/ipcpd/ipcp.h
index c81ea1aa..3771c1e4 100644
--- a/src/ipcpd/ipcp.h
+++ b/src/ipcpd/ipcp.h
@@ -138,4 +138,7 @@ uint8_t * ipcp_hash_dup(const uint8_t * hash);
void ipcp_hash_str(char buf[],
const uint8_t * hash);
+/* Helper function to lock a thread to a core. */
+void ipcp_lock_to_core(void);
+
#endif /* OUROBOROS_IPCPD_IPCP_H */