Re: numactl problems with -C option specifying cpus outside of cpus_allowed

Christoph Lameter <[email protected]> Thu, 3 Oct 2013 13:48:41 +0000

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On Wed, 2 Oct 2013, Andi Kleen wrote:

> On Wed, Oct 02, 2013 at 02:34:01PM +0000, Christoph Lameter wrote:
> > It seems that the check for processors specified with C is always done
> > regardless of CAP_SYS_NICE or the possibility that root may be calling
> > numactl.
> >
> > taskset does not have that problem. Nor did releases of numactl before
> > 2.0.8.
>
> The recently added --all option may help?

Which version added --all? Would the correct approach not be to check if
its root runninng numactl or if CAP_SYS_NICE is set?