linux-kernel - Re: CONFIG_ISOLATION=y (was: [PATCH 0/6] support "dataplane" mode for nohz

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Date:	Tue, 12 May 2015 14:43:19 +0200
From:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>
To:	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
Cc:	Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@...hip.com>,
	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
	Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com, Gilad Ben Yossef <giladb@...hip.com>,
	Rik van Riel <riel@...hat.com>, Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Christoph Lameter <cl@...ux.com>,
	"Srivatsa S. Bhat" <srivatsa.bhat@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	linux-doc@...r.kernel.org, linux-api@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: CONFIG_ISOLATION=y (was: [PATCH 0/6] support "dataplane" mode
 for nohz_full)


* Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org> wrote:

> On Tue, May 12, 2015 at 02:34:40PM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
>
> > Yes, that's what I meant: CONFIG_ISOLATION would trigger what is 
> > NO_HZ_FULL today - we could possibly even remove CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL 
> > as an individual Kconfig option?
> 
> Ah, as a rename of nohz_full, sure that might work.

It could also be named CONFIG_CPU_ISOLATION=y, to make it more 
explicit what it's about.

Thanks,

	Ingo
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