On Thu, Jun 02, 2016 at 04:34:35PM +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, and 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.
This appears to be Linux-specific. On non-Linux systems (e.g. FreeBSD, Mac OS) I suggest using just _SC_NPROCESSORS_ONLN. Thanks, Ben. _______________________________________________ dev mailing list dev@openvswitch.org http://openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/dev
