From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Peter Zijlstra Subject: Re: [PATCH]cpuset: add new API to change cpuset top group's cpus Date: Tue, 19 May 2009 14:01:18 +0200 Message-ID: <1242734478.26820.502.camel@twins> References: <20090519073942.GA10864@sli10-desk.sh.intel.com> <1242722454.26820.461.camel@twins> <8763fxpc1u.fsf@basil.nowhere.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from bombadil.infradead.org ([18.85.46.34]:50859 "EHLO bombadil.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751190AbZESMBT (ORCPT ); Tue, 19 May 2009 08:01:19 -0400 In-Reply-To: <8763fxpc1u.fsf@basil.nowhere.org> Sender: linux-acpi-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org To: Andi Kleen Cc: Shaohua Li , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org, lenb@kernel.org, menage@google.com On Tue, 2009-05-19 at 13:27 +0200, Andi Kleen wrote: > Peter Zijlstra writes: > > > > Furthermore, I object to being able to remove online cpus from the top > > cpuset, that just doesn't make sense. > > Note you can already do it at boot time with isolated_cpus=... > So your objection seems to be a few years too late. > > Shaohua's patch just makes it work at runtime too. No it doesn't. And isolcpus should die.