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| -rw-r--r-- | Help/prop_test/PROCESSORS.rst | 3 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Help/prop_test/PROCESSOR_AFFINITY.rst | 11 |
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diff --git a/Help/prop_test/PROCESSORS.rst b/Help/prop_test/PROCESSORS.rst index a1211fb..a927c10 100644 --- a/Help/prop_test/PROCESSORS.rst +++ b/Help/prop_test/PROCESSORS.rst @@ -2,6 +2,7 @@ PROCESSORS ---------- Set to specify how many process slots this test requires. +If not set, the default is ``1`` processor. Denotes the number of processors that this test will require. This is typically used for MPI tests, and should be used in conjunction with @@ -11,3 +12,5 @@ This will also be used to display a weighted test timing result in label and subproject summaries in the command line output of :manual:`ctest(1)`. The wall clock time for the test run will be multiplied by this property to give a better idea of how much cpu resource CTest allocated for the test. + +See also the :prop_test:`PROCESSOR_AFFINITY` test property. diff --git a/Help/prop_test/PROCESSOR_AFFINITY.rst b/Help/prop_test/PROCESSOR_AFFINITY.rst new file mode 100644 index 0000000..38ec179 --- /dev/null +++ b/Help/prop_test/PROCESSOR_AFFINITY.rst @@ -0,0 +1,11 @@ +PROCESSOR_AFFINITY +------------------ + +Set to a true value to ask CTest to launch the test process with CPU affinity +for a fixed set of processors. If enabled and supported for the current +platform, CTest will choose a set of processors to place in the CPU affinity +mask when launching the test process. The number of processors in the set is +determined by the :prop_test:`PROCESSORS` test property or the number of +processors available to CTest, whichever is smaller. The set of processors +chosen will be disjoint from the processors assigned to other concurrently +running tests that also have the ``PROCESSOR_AFFINITY`` property enabled. |