linux-kernel - Re: isolcpus question

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Date:	Tue, 31 Jan 2012 01:31:19 -0500
From:	Gene Heskett <gene.heskett@...il.com>
To:	Mike Galbraith <efault@....de>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	emc-users@...ts.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: isolcpus question

On Monday, January 30, 2012, Mike Galbraith wrote:
>On Mon, 2012-01-30 at 22:13 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote:
>> Which is, is there a isolcpus troubleshooting tool?
>> 
>> I have an app that is supposed to use the 2nd cpu on a 2 core atom
>> system all by itself, and its insisting on using cpu0 when the boot
>> command line has "isolcpus=1" appended to it, and apparently I am the
>> only one with the problem, its working for about 200-500 others
>> running the same software.
>
>isolcpus=1 isolates CPU1 so no task will automatically end up using it,
>but it's up to your task (or you) to move to the isolated CPU.  Pin your
>task to CPU1 with taskset, and all should work fine.
>
>	-Mike

Cross-posted back to the emc-users list, others might find it useful also.

Mike, you're a genius. The man page for taskset is a bit obtuse but the 
first stab at a '/usr/bin/lcnc' script:
-------------
#!/bin/bash
taskset 0x00000002 emc -l
exit 0
-------------
Seems to launch this application and I believe its now working better than 
ever before.  Now I need to do some experimenting to see just how fast I 
can make linuxcnc's base_thread run without the rest of the box getting 
laggy.  The faster I can make that thread run, the faster and smoother my 
steppers driving my milling machine will run.  I have already cut it down 
to 30 u-secs from 65 u-secs and it is still only using about 26% of the 
target cpu1.  Amazing IMO.

Thank you very much Mike.

Cheers, Gene
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