Re: getting processor numbers

[Paul Jackson]

Ulrich wrote:
> But all this of course does not solve the issue sysconf() has.  In
> sysconf we cannot use sched_getaffinity since all the systems CPUs must
> be reported.

Good point.  Yes, sysconf(_SC_NPROCESSORS_CONF) really needs to continue
returning the number of CPUs online, to maintain compatibility with the
current implementation, and because with a name like that, just about
anything else would be "surprising".

And OpenMPI shouldn't be calling sysconf(_SC_NPROCESSORS_CONF), as it does
not want to know how much hardware is there, but rather how much hardware
it is allowed to use.  Something based on sched_getaffinity() would seem
to be ideal for its purposes.

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