Deadline tasks cannot be pinned to specific CPUs by using affinities. Cgroups have to be used instead. Cylicdeadline has code to do so. However, that code is never executed, because the all_cpus variable is reassigned after argument parsing. Remove it. Signed-off-by: Kurt Kanzenbach <kurt@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- src/sched_deadline/cyclicdeadline.c | 1 - 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/src/sched_deadline/cyclicdeadline.c b/src/sched_deadline/cyclicdeadline.c index 16d986a02244..7b5e8b36c4ea 100644 --- a/src/sched_deadline/cyclicdeadline.c +++ b/src/sched_deadline/cyclicdeadline.c @@ -1165,7 +1165,6 @@ int main (int argc, char **argv) exit(-1); } - all_cpus = 1; if (!all_cpus) { int *pids; -- 2.11.0