From e5c677ca90791614f179ee261d1cc13c018bfa2e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Felix Weiglhofer <felix.weiglhofer@cern.ch>
Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2026 15:05:24 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] GPU: Don't override --recoSteps flags in standalone.

---
 .../Standalone/Benchmark/standalone.cxx       | 22 ++++++++++---------
 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)

diff --git a/GPU/GPUTracking/Standalone/Benchmark/standalone.cxx b/GPU/GPUTracking/Standalone/Benchmark/standalone.cxx
index 5fa9da23d7423..a2e74c45fcb86 100644
--- a/GPU/GPUTracking/Standalone/Benchmark/standalone.cxx
+++ b/GPU/GPUTracking/Standalone/Benchmark/standalone.cxx
@@ -413,6 +413,18 @@ int32_t SetupReconstruction()
     steps.steps.setBits(gpudatatypes::RecoStep::TPCClusterFinding, false);
   }
 
+  // Set settings for synchronous
+  GPUChainTracking::ApplySyncSettings(procSet, recSet, steps.steps, configStandalone.testSyncAsync || configStandalone.testSync, configStandalone.rundEdx);
+  int32_t runAsyncQA = procSet.runQA && !configStandalone.testSyncAsyncQcInSync ? procSet.runQA : 0;
+  if (configStandalone.testSyncAsync) {
+    procSet.eventDisplay = nullptr;
+    if (!configStandalone.testSyncAsyncQcInSync) {
+      procSet.runQA = false;
+    }
+  }
+
+  // Apply --recoSteps flag last so it takes precedence
+  // E.g. ApplySyncSettings might enable TPCdEdx, but might not be needed if only clusterizer was requested
   if (configStandalone.recoSteps >= 0) {
     steps.steps &= configStandalone.recoSteps;
   }
@@ -432,16 +444,6 @@ int32_t SetupReconstruction()
     }
   }
 
-  // Set settings for synchronous
-  GPUChainTracking::ApplySyncSettings(procSet, recSet, steps.steps, configStandalone.testSyncAsync || configStandalone.testSync, configStandalone.rundEdx);
-  int32_t runAsyncQA = procSet.runQA && !configStandalone.testSyncAsyncQcInSync ? procSet.runQA : 0;
-  if (configStandalone.testSyncAsync) {
-    procSet.eventDisplay = nullptr;
-    if (!configStandalone.testSyncAsyncQcInSync) {
-      procSet.runQA = false;
-    }
-  }
-
   rec->SetSettings(&grp, &recSet, &procSet, &steps);
   if (configStandalone.proc.doublePipeline) {
     recPipeline->SetSettings(&grp, &recSet, &procSet, &steps);