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From: "Randy.Dunlap" <rddunlap@osdl.org>
To: David Lang <david.lang@digitalinsight.com>
Cc: mingo@elte.hu, torvalds@osdl.org, hch@infradead.org,
	drepper@redhat.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, akpm@osdl.org
Subject: Re: sched_setaffinity usability
Date: Thu, 18 Mar 2004 12:57:33 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040318125733.65c1f33f.rddunlap@osdl.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0403181248440.4976@dlang.diginsite.com>

On Thu, 18 Mar 2004 12:49:12 -0800 (PST) David Lang wrote:

| On Thu, 18 Mar 2004, Ingo Molnar wrote:
| 
| > * Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> wrote:
| >
| > > sysconf() is a user-level implementation issue, and so is something
| > > like "number of CPU's". Damn, the simplest way to do it is as a
| > > environment variable, for christ sake! Just make a magic environment
| > > variable called __SC_ARRAY, and make it be some kind of binary
| > > encoding if you worry about performance.
| >
| > i am not arguing for any sysconf() support at all - it clearly belongs
| > into glibc. Just doing 'man sysconf' shows that it should be in
| > user-space. No argument about that.
| >
| > But how about the original issue Ulrich raised: how does user-space
| > figure out the NR_CPUS value supported by the kernel? (not the current #
| > of CPUs, that can be figured out using /proc/cpuinfo)
| 
| Doesn't /proc/config.gz answer this question?

I guess it could, but it's another CONFIG option...

--
~Randy

  reply	other threads:[~2004-03-18 21:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-03-18  8:05 Ulrich Drepper
2004-03-18  8:12 ` Tim Hockin
2004-03-18  8:22   ` Ulrich Drepper
2004-03-18  8:47     ` Ulrich Drepper
2004-03-18  9:45 ` Andrew Morton
2004-03-18 10:10   ` Andrew Morton
2004-03-18 11:29 ` Ingo Molnar
2004-03-18 12:07   ` Christoph Hellwig
2004-03-18 12:31     ` Ingo Molnar
2004-03-19  8:05       ` Ulrich Drepper
2004-03-18 15:55     ` Linus Torvalds
2004-03-18 18:24       ` Ingo Molnar
2004-03-18 18:33         ` Andrew Morton
2004-03-18 18:39           ` Ingo Molnar
2004-03-18 18:55             ` Ingo Molnar
2004-03-18 20:01             ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-03-18 20:28               ` Ingo Molnar
2004-03-18 20:49         ` David Lang
2004-03-18 20:57           ` Randy.Dunlap [this message]
2004-03-18 21:06           ` Ingo Molnar
2004-03-18 21:07         ` Davide Libenzi
2004-03-18 21:46           ` Ingo Molnar
2004-03-19  1:37             ` Davide Libenzi
2004-03-19  9:02         ` Helge Hafting
2004-03-21  9:51           ` Ingo Molnar
2004-03-19  0:00       ` Paul Jackson
2004-03-18 17:47 ` sched_setaffinity usability -- other issue Chris Friesen
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2004-03-18 21:23               ` sched_setaffinity usability Andi Kleen

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