On Sat, Feb 19, 2011 at 04:26:56AM -0500, Tavian Barnes wrote: snip
> - There's no portable way to get the number of available cores. Where > does platform-specific code go in libalpm? The way to do it on Linux > is with sched_getaffinity(); sysconf(_SC_NPROCESSORS_ONLN) is almost > as good and works on BSD too I believe. > No, I don't think it works on BSDs. You can look at how x264 guys implemented this. Check out x264_cpu_num_processors() in common/cpu.c in their source tree. I'm not sure hard-coding supported platforms through ifdefs would be accepted in pacman/libalpm. > Also, I guess a major question would be: would this be likely to be > merged? It's not a major issue, but it's also not a very large > change. Every time there's a KDE update or something similarly large > I find myself wishing that all 2/4/24 of my cores were being used for > the the integrity checks. > > -- > Tavian Barnes >
