Re: [PATCH]cpuset: add new API to change cpuset top group's cpus

Peter Zijlstra
2009-05-19T12:01:19Z

On Tue, 2009-05-19 at 13:27 +0200, Andi Kleen wrote:
> Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> 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.