Hi, I think it is necessary to make a small change to the cpuset API. The current API was made fit to allow dynamically sized cpusets. I.e. an alloc/modify/free style life cycle. The problem I see is, from where should hwloc_cpuset_alloc() get the size of the cpuset? The solution I see is to pass the hwloc_topology_t into hwloc_cpuset_alloc(), so that the information comes from there [1].
I haven't looked through the whole tree, if a hwloc_topology_t is always available at places where hwloc_cpuset_alloc() is called. Comments? Regards, Bert [1]: linux exposes this as /sys/devices/system/cpu/kernel_max
