On Thu, 03 Oct 2013, Christoph Lameter wrote: > On Wed, 2 Oct 2013, Andi Kleen wrote: > > > On Wed, Oct 02, 2013 at 02:34:01PM +0000, Christoph Lameter wrote: > > > It seems that the check for processors specified with C is always done > > > regardless of CAP_SYS_NICE or the possibility that root may be calling > > > numactl. > > > > > > taskset does not have that problem. Nor did releases of numactl before > > > 2.0.8. > > > > The recently added --all option may help? > > Which version added --all? Would the correct approach not be to check if > its root runninng numactl or if CAP_SYS_NICE is set? --all option was added in version 2.0.9-rc5. When CAP_SYS_NICE is not set, numactl will fail in sched_setaffinity() call even so. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-numa" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html