On Thu, Jun 09, 2016 at 11:52:49AM +0200, Quentin Monnet wrote: > From: David Marchand <david.march...@6wind.com> > > Relying on /proc/cpuinfo to count the number of available cores is not > the best option: > > - The code is x86-specific. > - If the process is started with a different CPU affinity, then it will > wrongly try to start too many threads (for an example, imagine an OVS > daemon restricted to 4 CPU threads on a 128 threads system). > > This commit removes /proc/cpuinfo parsing. For Linux systems, it > introduces instead a call to sched_getaffinity(), which is > architecture-independant, in order to retrieve the list of CPU threads > available to the current process and to count them. Other UNIX-like > systems only use _SC_NPROCESSORS_ONLN. > > Signed-off-by: David Marchand <david.march...@6wind.com> > Signed-off-by: Liu Xiaofeng <xiaofeng....@6wind.com> > Signed-off-by: Quentin Monnet <quentin.mon...@6wind.com>
This seems reasonable, but the authorship is confusing. Who is the author, and what are the roles of the others in the signoff chain? Thanks, Ben. _______________________________________________ dev mailing list dev@openvswitch.org http://openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/dev
