From: Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com>
To: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>,
mingo@redhat.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
linux-api@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] sched/core: expand sched_getaffinity(2) to return number of CPUs
Date: Fri, 05 Apr 2019 13:08:58 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87ftqw3e0l.fsf@oldenburg2.str.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190405110415.GP12232@hirez.programming.kicks-ass.net> (Peter Zijlstra's message of "Fri, 5 Apr 2019 13:04:15 +0200")
* Peter Zijlstra:
> On Fri, Apr 05, 2019 at 12:16:39PM +0200, Florian Weimer wrote:
>
>> > True; but I suppose glibc already does lots of that anyway, right? It
>> > does contain the right information.
>>
>> If I recall correctly my last investigation,
>> /sys/devices/system/cpu/possible does not reflect the size of the
>> affinity mask, either.
>
> Strictly speaking correct; the bitmap can be longer than the highest
> possible cpu number, however the remainder would be 0-padding and could
> thus be stripped without issue.
Doesn't the kernel still enforce the larget bitmap in sched_getaffinity,
even if the bits are always zero?
Thanks,
Florian
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-04-05 11:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-04-03 20:08 [PATCH] sched/core: expand sched_getaffinity(2) to return number of CPUs Alexey Dobriyan
2019-04-04 8:42 ` Peter Zijlstra
2019-04-04 18:02 ` Alexey Dobriyan
2019-04-05 9:26 ` Peter Zijlstra
2019-04-05 10:16 ` Florian Weimer
2019-04-05 11:04 ` Peter Zijlstra
2019-04-05 11:08 ` Florian Weimer [this message]
2019-04-05 11:49 ` Peter Zijlstra
2019-04-06 19:48 ` Alexey Dobriyan
2019-04-08 7:49 ` Florian Weimer
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