Re: [PATCH 2/5] trace-cmd: Use tracing directory to count CPUs

[Masami Hiramatsu]

(2012/08/22 22:41), Steven Rostedt wrote:
> On Wed, 2012-08-22 at 17:43 +0900, Yoshihiro YUNOMAE wrote:
>> From: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>>
>> Count debugfs/tracing/per_cpu/cpu* to determine the
>> number of CPUs.
> 
> I'm curious, do you find that sysconf doesn't return the # of CPUs the
> system has?

No, sysconf returns the number of hosts CPUs, not guests.

> I've had boxes where the per_cpu/cpu* had more cpus than the
> box actually holds. But this was a bug in the kernel, not the tool. This
> change log needs to have rational instead of just explaining what the
> patch does.

Ah, I see. Hmm, then this should be enabled by a command line
option or an environment variable.

Thank you,


-- 
Masami HIRAMATSU
Software Platform Research Dept. Linux Technology Center
Hitachi, Ltd., Yokohama Research Laboratory
E-mail: masami.hiramatsu.pt@xxxxxxxxxxx


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