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* [PATCH v4 RESEND 0/4] cpusets,isolcpus: exclude isolcpus from load balancing in cpusets
@ 2015-03-09 16:12 riel-H+wXaHxf7aLQT0dZR+AlfA
  2015-03-09 16:12 ` [PATCH 1/4] sched,isolcpu: make cpu_isolated_map visible outside scheduler riel
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  0 siblings, 6 replies; 14+ messages in thread
From: riel-H+wXaHxf7aLQT0dZR+AlfA @ 2015-03-09 16:12 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: tj-DgEjT+Ai2ygdnm+yROfE0A
  Cc: linux-kernel-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA,
	cgroups-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA, lizefan-hv44wF8Li93QT0dZR+AlfA

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.

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2015-03-09 16:12 [PATCH v4 RESEND 0/4] cpusets,isolcpus: exclude isolcpus from load balancing in cpusets riel-H+wXaHxf7aLQT0dZR+AlfA
2015-03-09 16:12 ` [PATCH 1/4] sched,isolcpu: make cpu_isolated_map visible outside scheduler riel
2015-03-09 16:12 ` [PATCH 2/4] cpusets,isolcpus: exclude isolcpus from load balancing in cpusets riel
2015-03-09 16:12 ` [PATCH 3/4] cpusets,isolcpus: add file to show isolated cpus in cpuset riel
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2015-03-18 16:47     ` Tejun Heo
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2015-03-18 23:40         ` Rik van Riel
2015-03-19  1:50           ` Zefan Li
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2015-03-19  1:54               ` Rik van Riel
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2015-03-19  6:28                   ` Zefan Li
2015-03-19  1:45         ` Rik van Riel
     [not found]           ` <550A2A49.4060704-H+wXaHxf7aLQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
2015-03-19  1:48             ` Tejun Heo
2015-03-09 16:12 ` [PATCH 4/4] cpuset,isolcpus: document relationship between cpusets & isolcpus riel
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2015-03-18 16:13   ` [PATCH v4 RESEND 0/4] cpusets,isolcpus: exclude isolcpus from load balancing in cpusets Rik van Riel
2015-03-19 18:30 ` Tejun Heo

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