When I boot my 8 core i7 laptop with the maxcpus=4 kernel boot flag, cyclictest -S runs 8 threads. This patch makes it only use the online cpus instead. diff --git a/src/cyclictest/cyclictest.c b/src/cyclictest/cyclictest.c index 4547831..92fc346 100644 --- a/src/cyclictest/cyclictest.c +++ b/src/cyclictest/cyclictest.c @@ -1740,7 +1740,7 @@ int main(int argc, char **argv) sigset_t sigset; int signum = SIGALRM; int mode; - int max_cpus = sysconf(_SC_NPROCESSORS_CONF); + int max_cpus = sysconf(_SC_NPROCESSORS_ONLN); int i, ret = -1; int status; diff --git a/src/cyclictest/rt_numa.h b/src/cyclictest/rt_numa.h index e64c446..c2b3e85 100644 --- a/src/cyclictest/rt_numa.h +++ b/src/cyclictest/rt_numa.h @@ -128,7 +128,7 @@ static int rt_numa_numa_node_of_cpu(int cpu) int max_node, max_cpus; max_node = numa_max_node(); - max_cpus = sysconf(_SC_NPROCESSORS_CONF); + max_cpus = sysconf(_SC_NPROCESSORS_ONLN); if (cpu > max_cpus) { errno = EINVAL; -- Joakim -- 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