[PATCH] Remove CPU mask size detection from setaffinity

[Florian Weimer]

On 05/21/2015 01:28 PM, Florian Weimer wrote:
> On 05/20/2015 06:24 PM, Florian Weimer wrote:
>> The code looks quite broken to me and fails to achieve what it tries to
>> do, as explained in the commit message.
> 
> Another advantage is that the magic number 1024 (128 bytes of CPU bits)
> is gone, so testing on smaller machines is possible.
> 
> Well, I did that (144 CPU cores, detected set size 192 bits), and it
> turns out that my pthread test case is completely broken. :-(
> 
> Here's a new one.  It tries to check that the active CPU set returned by
> the kernel has not been truncated, and that threads are not scheduled to
> CPUs outside the set.

Now actually with the patch.

-- 
Florian Weimer / Red Hat Product Security
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