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From: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] cyclictest: remove compatibilty hack for old libnuma,
 repairs "-a" for isolcpus
Date: Wed, 20 May 2015 21:54:15 +0200 (CEST)
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On Wed, 20 May 2015, John Kacur wrote:
> This is a terrible hack, but I'm afraid to remove it yet.
> Even systems as recent as Fedora 19 have a libnuma less than that.
> pm -qf /usr/lib64/libnuma.so
> numactl-devel-2.0.8-4.fc19.x86_64
> [jkacur@riemann rt-tests]$ cat /etc/fedora-release 
> Fedora release 19 (Schrödinger’s Cat)
> 
> This is causing problems for people who want to pin threads to 
> CPUs isolated with isolcpus=, so we do need to do something about.
> 
> I could perhaps accept an improved hack that tests whether the hack itself 
> is needed, until we have a better solution.

I'm not a great fan of it, but I think that rt-tests really needs
proper automake with proper tests for various bits and pieces.

Thanks,

	tglx
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