[PATCH] xfstests: src/feature.c: print a number of online CPUs

[Stanislav Kholmanskikh]

On 10/24/2013 05:18 PM, Carlos Maiolino wrote:
> Hi Dave,
>
> I'm not sure about setting the default to 1 cpu might me a good behavior. My
> apologies if I'm saying something wrong, but, if the 'tester' are trying to do
> some test trusting on the amount of cpus, it might not be a good behavior.
> I was thinking, how about issue an error message if xfstests can't properly
> detect the amount of cpus from the system, and add any kind of usage option to
> specify the numbers of cpus? So in case of a error while detecting the amount of
> cpus.
What about this:

If we can not determine the number of available cpus we just
print '-1' (as sysconf() returns in that case) and exit with non-zero 
status.
And verify the exit status in the test cases.

What do you mean by:
"and add any kind of usage option to specify the numbers of cpus"
?

Thanks.

>
>
>> Actually, I'd say we shoul default to 1 cpu if we can't get the
>> number of CPUs. Clearly we have at least one if we can run this
>> code. :)
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Dave.
>> -- 
>> Dave Chinner
>> david at fromorbit.com
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