linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v4 RESEND 0/4] cpusets,isolcpus: exclude isolcpus from load balancing in cpusets

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Date:	Thu, 19 Mar 2015 14:30:01 -0400
From:	Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>
To:	riel@...hat.com
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, cgroups@...r.kernel.org,
	lizefan@...wei.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 RESEND 0/4] cpusets,isolcpus: exclude isolcpus from
 load balancing in cpusets

On Mon, Mar 09, 2015 at 12:12:06PM -0400, 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.

Applied 1, 2, and 4 to cgroup/for-4.1.  I collected the acks from the
previous threads.  Can you please collect them when posting new
revisions in the future?

Thanks.

-- 
tejun
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