/*************************************************************************** * * Copyright 2007 by Sean Conner. * * This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify * it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by * the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or * (at your option) any later version. * * This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the * GNU General Public License for more details. * * You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License * along with this program. If not, see . * * Comments, questions and criticisms can be sent to: sean@conman.org * *************************************************************************/ #include #include #include #include /*---------------------------------------------- ; flags we pass to clone(). This creates what ; is escentially a thread in Linux. ; ; for this program, I don't particularly care ; about portability, just a proof-of-concept. ; ; Sorry Mark. ;---------------------------------------------*/ #define FLAGS (SIGCHLD | CLONE_FS | CLONE_FILES | CLONE_VM) /*---------------------------------------------- ; stacks used for the threads created. ;---------------------------------------------*/ int m_stack0[1024]; int m_stack1[1024]; int m_stack2[1024]; int m_stack3[1024]; /*------------------------------------------ ; recursive version (as used in ; http://cgi.cse.unsw.edu.au/~dons/blog/2007/11/29#smoking-4core ; ) ;--------------------------------------------*/ unsigned long fib(unsigned long n) { if (n == 0) return(0); if (n == 1) return(1); return fib(n - 2) + fib(n - 1); } /*------------------------------------- ; the created threads run this routine ;-------------------------------------*/ int parfib(void *p) { unsigned long *pl = p; *pl = fib(*pl); _exit(0); } /*--------------------------------------- ; Wait for all threads to stop running. ; quick and dirty version ;---------------------------------------*/ void wait_for_kids(void) { int status; pid_t child; while(1) { child = waitpid(-1,&status,__WALL); if (child == -1) return; } } int main(int argc,char *argv[]) { unsigned long p1; unsigned long p2; unsigned long p3; unsigned long p4; if (argc == 1) { fprintf(stderr,"usage: %s 1 | 2 | 4\n",argv[0]); return(EXIT_FAILURE); } switch(argv[1][0]) { case '1': /* single core, just run straight */ printf("fib(45) = %lu\n",fib(45)); break; case '2': /* dual core, just two threads */ p1 = 44; p2 = 43; clone(parfib,&m_stack0[1023],FLAGS,&p1); clone(parfib,&m_stack1[1023],FLAGS,&p2); wait_for_kids(); printf("fib(45) = %lu\n",p1 + p2); break; case '4': /* quad-core */ p1 = 43; p2 = 42; p3 = 42; p4 = 41; clone(parfib,&m_stack0[1023],FLAGS,&p1); clone(parfib,&m_stack1[1023],FLAGS,&p2); clone(parfib,&m_stack2[1023],FLAGS,&p3); clone(parfib,&m_stack3[1023],FLAGS,&p4); wait_for_kids(); printf("fib(45) = %lu\n",p1 + p2 + p3 + p4); break; } return(EXIT_SUCCESS); }