How to set thread affinity when using IPP library

[yangzhang]

System detail:

Computer we are using is an Intel i7-2600. It is 4 core CPU with hyper thread which give 8 virtual cores. OS is Windows 7.

Issue:

We have an image processing process, We like to run it in upper 6 cores and leave lower 2 cores for device control. I use setAffinity to set image processing process to upper 6 cores. To test the affinity, I use Windows task manager to monitor which core is used. It works as I expected that 6 cores busy when I use C++ code in my algorithm. However when I opptimize my code to use IPP library, it start to use all 8 cores; and ignore my Cpu affinity setting. Is there any way I can set CPU affinity to IPP library? Any help is appreciated.

I have test ippSetAffinity. It does not make difference.

Yang

Abbott Point of Care

[Chao_Y_Intel]

Yang,

The Intel IPP functions are threaded with OpenMP. The affinity setting in the IPP will also impact the IPP. Please check if the following environment setting could work for you:
KMP_AFFINITY=explicit,proclist=[1-6:1],granularity=fine

You can check the following article regarding the these setting
http://software.intel.com/sites/products/documentation/hpc/composerxe/en-us/2011Update/fortran/lin/optaps/common/optaps_openmp_thread_affinity.htm

Thanks,
Chao

[SergeyKostrov]

>>...However when I opptimize my code to use IPP library, it start to use all 8 cores; and ignore my Cpu affinity setting... This is expected result because OpenMP based processing in IPP library ( for some functions ) takes control of the thread management. However, if you get a list of all threads in the application using Win32 API you could set your own affinities for these threads. There is an example in MSDN on how to do this.