This article explains the fundamentals of Linux CPU affinity, compares soft and hard binding, shows how to use taskset, sched_setaffinity, numactl and cgroup cpuset, and provides real‑world case studies for servers, game frameworks, Nginx and Hadoop clusters.
This article explains hyper‑threading fundamentals, distinguishes physical, logical, and CPU cores, shows how to query CPU topology on Linux, introduces the concept of CPU affinity, demonstrates using the taskset command and related syscalls, and provides C API examples for setting process and thread affinity.
This guide explains the concepts of Hyper‑Threading, physical vs logical CPUs, how to query CPU information on Linux, and provides detailed instructions for using the taskset command and related programming APIs to set and retrieve CPU affinity for processes and threads.
This article explains why binding a process to a specific CPU improves cache performance, shows how to set CPU affinity on Linux using the sched_setaffinity system call, and walks through the kernel's internal implementation—including run‑queue structures, migrate_task, and __migrate_task—illustrated with code and diagrams.
