How to prevent inheriting CPU affinity by child forked process?

Question

I have a server process that forks many child processes. The server process has affinity to a CPU core, but I don't want that affinity to be inherited by child process (rather OS should handle where to run these processes). Is there a way to delink parent child processes with respect to cpu affinity?

Dric

If nothing else you could probably de-link the parent process before forking the child, and then re-link it again afterwards... – Hayrack

Answer 1

You can call sched_setaffinity(2) with all bits set in CPU mask after the fork(2) and before the execve(2).

Purington