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From: Eric Wong <e@80x24.org>
To: meta@public-inbox.org
Subject: [PATCH 2/8] drop GNU nproc(1) support in favor of getconf(1)
Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2023 10:15:10 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20230918101516.2477899-3-e@80x24.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20230918101516.2477899-1-e@80x24.org>

`getconf NPROCESSORS_ONLN' will succeed on GNU/Linux systems
anyways; and the non-underscore-prefixed invocation works fine
on all BSD flavors tested.

Thus the `nproc' and `gnproc' attempts will never be reached.
The only downside is we lose the ability to account for CPU
affinity, but that's probably not an issue since CPU affinity
(AFAIK) isn't a commonly-used feature.
---
 Makefile.PL            |  4 ++--
 ci/run.sh              |  2 +-
 lib/PublicInbox/IPC.pm | 11 ++++-------
 3 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Makefile.PL b/Makefile.PL
index 5b7914dc..97e00395 100644
--- a/Makefile.PL
+++ b/Makefile.PL
@@ -199,8 +199,8 @@ WriteMakefile(
 );
 
 sub MY::postamble {
-	my $N = (`{ getconf _NPROCESSORS_ONLN || getconf NPROCESSORS_ONLN ||
-		gnproc || nproc; } 2>/dev/null` || 1);
+	my $N = (`{ getconf _NPROCESSORS_ONLN ||
+		getconf NPROCESSORS_ONLN; } 2>/dev/null` || 1);
 	$N += 1; # account for sleeps in some tests (and makes an IV)
 	<<EOF;
 PROVE = prove
diff --git a/ci/run.sh b/ci/run.sh
index 93790269..bd1d8a4d 100755
--- a/ci/run.sh
+++ b/ci/run.sh
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ then
 	$DO $MAKE clean >/dev/null
 fi
 NPROC=${NPROC-$({ getconf _NPROCESSORS_ONLN || getconf NPROCESSORS_ONLN ||
-	gnproc || nproc || echo 2; } 2>/dev/null)}
+		echo 2; } 2>/dev/null)}
 
 TEST_JOBS=${TEST_JOBS-1}
 $PERL -w ci/profiles.perl | while read args
diff --git a/lib/PublicInbox/IPC.pm b/lib/PublicInbox/IPC.pm
index 39021f42..fa084795 100644
--- a/lib/PublicInbox/IPC.pm
+++ b/lib/PublicInbox/IPC.pm
@@ -464,16 +464,13 @@ sub detect_nproc () {
 	my $n = $NPROCESSORS_ONLN{$^O};
 	return POSIX::sysconf($n) if defined $n;
 
-	# getconf(1) is POSIX, but *NPROCESSORS* vars are not
+	# getconf(1) is POSIX, but *NPROCESSORS* vars are not even if
+	# glibc, {Free,Net,Open}BSD all support them.
 	for (qw(_NPROCESSORS_ONLN NPROCESSORS_ONLN)) {
 		`getconf $_ 2>/dev/null` =~ /^(\d+)$/ and return $1;
 	}
-	for my $nproc (qw(nproc gnproc)) { # GNU coreutils nproc
-		`$nproc 2>/dev/null` =~ /^(\d+)$/ and return $1;
-	}
-
-	# should we bother with `sysctl hw.ncpu`?  Those only give
-	# us total processor count, not online processor count.
+	# note: GNU nproc(1) checks CPU affinity, which is nice but
+	# isn't remotely portable
 	undef
 }
 

  parent reply	other threads:[~2023-09-18 10:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-09-18 10:15 [PATCH 0/8] portability odds and ends Eric Wong
2023-09-18 10:15 ` [PATCH 1/8] ci/run: favor `make check' as the default target Eric Wong
2023-09-18 10:15 ` Eric Wong [this message]
2023-09-18 10:15 ` [PATCH 3/8] ipc: assume SOCK_SEQPACKET exists Eric Wong
2023-09-18 10:15 ` [PATCH 4/8] rename t/run.perl to xt/check-run Eric Wong
2023-09-18 10:15 ` [PATCH 5/8] makefile: avoid needless use of double-colon rules Eric Wong
2023-09-18 10:15 ` [PATCH 6/8] pop3d: split @FLOCK into $FLOCK_TMPL and @FLOCK_ORDER Eric Wong
2023-09-18 10:15 ` [PATCH 7/8] install/deps: more fixes Eric Wong
2023-09-18 10:15 ` [PATCH 8/8] makefile: avoid non-POSIX which(1) Eric Wong

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