linux-kernel - Re: [RFC] Restrict kernel spawning of threads to a specified set of cpus.

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Message-ID: <1378803212.6046.86.camel@marge.simpson.net>
Date:	Tue, 10 Sep 2013 10:53:32 +0200
From:	Mike Galbraith <bitbucket@...ine.de>
To:	Gilad Ben-Yossef <gilad@...yossef.com>
Cc:	Christoph Lameter <cl@...ux.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>,
	Mike Frysinger <vapier@...too.org>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC] Restrict kernel spawning of threads to a specified set of
 cpus.

On Tue, 2013-09-10 at 10:56 +0300, Gilad Ben-Yossef wrote:

> What if we  re-did the implementation of isolcpu as creating an
> cpuset with migration off as early as possible in the boot process, prior to
> spawning init?
> 
> So basically, isolcpus becomes just a way to configure a cpuset early?

Makes perfect sense to me.

-Mike

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