Question about Python threads

[Gerhard Häring]

* Greg Copeland <gtcopeland at earthlink.net> [2002-08-23 15:35 -0500]:
> "Mr. Neutron" <nicktsocanos at charter.net> writes:
> > How do I specifically tell in C using pthreads, that I want CPUA()
> > on CPU0 and CPUB() on CPU1? My understanding is you can't specify
> > this on Linux, but I hope I am just limited in my understanding
> 
> You can't specify this on most OS'.  This is called CPU affinity.

AFAIK the Mindcraft benchmark exploited that Windows can set CPU
affinity, while Linux can't. That may be one reason why there are now
cpu affinity patches to the Linux kernel. Though I have a (crappy) SMP
machine here, I've never tried these patches myself.

> > Second, how in C do I access the GIL in python? Where do I look for
> > this or are there any examples of this?

Py_BEGIN_ALLOW_THREADS / Py_END_ALLOW_THREADS

Be cautious with these, it's easy to make errors.

Gerhard
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