IRC user reports a system where, with HT disabled, NPROCESSORS_ONLN is 2, and the default affinity mask is 0x5.
Since uspace rtapi tries to bind to (NPROCESSORSONLN-1), i.e., CPU 1 in this case, the realtime task never runs.
(The kernel is 4.9-rt from debian stretch repository. unreported whether it’s 32- or 64-bit)