* Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > hm, what affinity do they start out with? Could they all be pinned > > to CPU#0 by default? > > They start off with affinity masks of 0xf on a 4-CPU system. I would > expect them to load-balance across the four CPUs, but they stay all on > the same CPU until long after I lose patience (many minutes). ugh. Would be nice to figure out why this happens. I enabled rcutorture on a dual-core CPU and all the threads are spread evenly. Ingo - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-rt-users" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html