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Message-ID: <20150309033754.GF13283@htj.duckdns.org>
Date: Sun, 8 Mar 2015 23:37:54 -0400
From: Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>
To: riel@...hat.com
Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 0/4] cpusets,isolcpus: exclude isolcpus from load
balancing in cpusets
On Tue, Mar 03, 2015 at 06:00:19PM -0500, riel@...hat.com wrote:
> Ensure that cpus specified with the isolcpus= boot commandline
> option stay outside of the load balancing in the kernel scheduler.
>
> Operations like load balancing can introduce unwanted latencies,
> which is exactly what the isolcpus= commandline is there to prevent.
>
> Previously, simply creating a new cpuset, without even touching the
> cpuset.cpus field inside the new cpuset, would undo the effects of
> isolcpus=, by creating a scheduler domain spanning the whole system,
> and setting up load balancing inside that domain. The cpuset root
> cpuset.cpus file is read-only, so there was not even a way to undo
> that effect.
>
> This does not impact the majority of cpusets users, since isolcpus=
> is a fairly specialized feature used for realtime purposes.
>
> This version fixes the UP compilation issue, in the same way done
> for the other cpumasks.
Can you please repost with Li Zefan <lizefan@...wei.com> and
cgroups@...r.kernel.org cc'd?
Thanks.
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tejun
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