8.8. Pthread specific environment variables in AIX
Tuning multi-threaded applications for optimal performance can be challenging on any system. AIX provides a set of environmental variables that modify the behavior of various threading functions. Let us look at some of these variables one at a time.
AIXTHREAD_SCOPE
This environment variable controls the mapping of the application-level Pthreads to entries in the OS scheduling queue. The default thread scope for AIX is process, and this applies to the creation of Pthreads only when the attribute argument to pthread_create() is NULL; otherwise, the contents of the attribute structure determines the scope of the Pthread. This implies that a single process may contain Pthreads of both scopes.
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