linux-kernel - Re: getting processor numbers

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Date:	Tue, 03 Apr 2007 10:37:49 -0700
From:	Ulrich Drepper <drepper@...hat.com>
To:	"linux-os (Dick Johnson)" <linux-os@...logic.com>
CC:	Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: getting processor numbers

linux-os (Dick Johnson) wrote:
> Shouldn't it just be another system call? 223 is currently unused. You
> could fill that up with __NR_nr_cpus. The value already exists in
> the kernel.

You forget about Linus' credo "there shall be no sysconf-like syscall".
 I'd be all for sys_sysconf or even the limited sys_nr_cpus although
ideally then we'd have two syscalls (probed CPUs, active CPUs, in which
case sys_sysconf is the better choice).

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➧ Ulrich Drepper ➧ Red Hat, Inc. ➧ 444 Castro St ➧ Mountain View, CA ❖


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