On Tue, Jan 26, 2021 at 12:55:33AM -0500, John Kacur wrote: > Well, --smp historically combined -a -t and threads at the same priority > You could argue that it is reasonable for -a to automatically imply -t > but I have had debates with people about this and we settled on -a just > specifies the affinity, and the default number of threads is one unless > you use -t. My thinking is if you set an affinity mask, you want also to assign a thread to the CPUs. If not what's the point to set an affinity mask without a thread on it. Though the user is able to overwrite this by providing the -t options along side the -a option. > I'm not sure what you mean by this makes cyclictest behave the way the > rest of rt-tests does, the rest of rt-tests should match what cyclitest > does. As I wrote, make cyclictest behave the same way as the to other tools when -a/-t is used. > That said, I did some quick runs of signaltest and -a seems broken, > sigh. Is it broken without my patches or with my patches? What is broken?
