Hard affinity

This article or the following section is not adequately provided with supporting documents ( e.g. individual evidence ). Information without sufficient evidence could be removed soon. Please help Wikipedia by researching the information and including good evidence.

In the context of operating system theory and scheduling , hard affinity means that certain processes and threads can and may only run on certain processors.

The advantage and purpose of this method is that constant context changes, CPU hopping and thread trashing are avoided.

See also

Soft affinity