linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH]cpuset: add new API to change cpuset top group's cpus

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Message-ID: <8763fxpc1u.fsf@basil.nowhere.org>
Date:	Tue, 19 May 2009 13:27:57 +0200
From:	Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>
To:	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
Cc:	Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@...el.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-acpi@...r.kernel.org, lenb@...nel.org, menage@...gle.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH]cpuset: add new API to change cpuset top group's cpus

Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org> writes:
>
> Furthermore, I object to being able to remove online cpus from the top
> cpuset, that just doesn't make sense.

Note you can already do it at boot time with isolated_cpus=...
So your objection seems to be a few years too late.

Shaohua's patch just makes it work at runtime too.

-Andi

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