schedule

Definition

schedule is the clause that tells OpenMP how to distribute the for loop iterations to the threads. OpenMP policies are static, dynamic, guided, auto and runtime.

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schedule(policy,
         chunksize)

Parameters

policy: The OpenMP scheduling policy to use, possible values are static, dynamic, guided, runtime and auto.
chunksize: Optional argument that specifies how many iterations make a chunk. OpenMP schedules distribute chunks of iterations, this parameter therefore defines the scheduling “granularity”.

Example

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#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <omp.h>

/**
 * @brief Illustrates how to tell OpenMP which schedule to apply.
 * @details A static schedule strategy is explicitly specified, as well as the chunksize.
 **/
int main(int argc, char* argv[])
{
    // Use 2 threads when creating OpenMP parallel regions
    omp_set_num_threads(2);

    // Parallelise the for loop using the static schedule with chunks made of 2 iterations
    #pragma omp parallel for schedule(static, 2)
    for(int i = 0; i < 10; i++)
    {
        printf("Thread %d processes iteration %d.\n", omp_get_thread_num(), i);
    }

    return EXIT_SUCCESS;
}