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>

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/src/ipcpd/local/main.c b/src/ipcpd/local/main.c
index 787fc289..358f6388 100644
--- a/src/ipcpd/local/main.c
+++ b/src/ipcpd/local/main.c
@@ -97,6 +97,8 @@ static void * ipcp_local_sdu_loop(void * o)
 {
         (void) o;
 
+        ipcp_lock_to_core();
+
         while (true) {
                 int     fd;
                 ssize_t idx;