The EPICS Multi-Core Utilities library contains tools that allow tweaking of real-time parameters for EPICS IOC threads running on multi-core processors under the Linux operating system.
These tools are intended to set up multi-core IOCs for fast controllers, by:
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Confining either parts or the complete EPICS IOC onto a subset of the available cores, allowing hard real-time applications and threads to run on dedicated cores.
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Changing priorities of callback, driver or communication threads with respect to database processing.
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Selecting real-time scheduling policy (FIFO or Round-Robin) for selected threads.
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Locking the IOC process virtual memory into RAM to avoid swapping.
- Linux operating system
- EPICS BASE 3.15 or above (EPICS 7 supported).
- Unpack the distribution tar or check out the source tree
- Run
make - To generate a minimal example IOC, run
make -C example.
To use the Multi-Core Utilities in an IOC application tree, you have to add a
definition to .../configure/RELEASE or RELEASE.local that points to the
location of the mcoreutils module.
In the directory that builds your IOC binary, the Makefile has to make sure
the IOC is only built for Linux. Then add the dbd file and the Library, e.g.:
...
PROD_IOC_Linux = mcutest
...
mcutest_DBD += mcoreutils.dbd
...
mcutest_LIBS += mcoreutils
...Complete documentation available at http://epics-modules.github.io/MCoreUtils/