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Message-ID: <87k13boxcn.fsf@nanos.tec.linutronix.de>
Date: Mon, 23 Mar 2020 17:22:00 +0100
From: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
To: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@...hat.com>,
Chris Friesen <chris.friesen@...driver.com>,
linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@...ux.com>, Vu Tran <vu.tran@...driver.com>,
Jim Somerville <Jim.Somerville@...driver.com>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>,
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] affine kernel threads to specified cpumask
Marcelo,
Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@...hat.com> writes:
the subject lacks a prefix and the CC list a few people.
> This is a kernel enhancement to configure the cpu affinity of kernel
> threads via kernel boot option kthread_cpus=<cpulist>.
>
> With kthread_cpus specified, the cpumask is immediately applied upon
> thread launch. This does not affect kernel threads that specify cpu
> and node.
>
> This allows CPU isolation (that is not allowing certain threads
> to execute on certain CPUs) without using the isolcpus= parameter,
> making it possible to enable load balancing on such CPUs
> during runtime.
I'm surely missing some background information, but that sentence does
not make any sense to me.
Thanks,
tglx
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