Re: [PATCH] cyclictest: remove compatibilty hack for old libnuma, repairs "-a" for isolcpus

[John Kacur <jkacur@redhat.com>]

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On Thu, 21 May 2015, John Kacur wrote:

> Sigh, okay, I'll look into that then.
> 
> On 20 May 2015 at 21:54, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> wrote:
>       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

Sigh, okay, I'll look into that then.

John