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Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 00/32] Nohz cpusets (was: Nohz Tasks)
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On Wed, 2011-08-31 at 17:00 +0300, Gilad Ben-Yossef wrote:
> >> > cpusets? Afaict all it does is not include a number of cpus in the sched
> 
> I think you meant to write cpuisol here :-)

Uhh, yeah ;-)

> >> > domains, creating a bunch of independent scheduling cpus. You can use
> >> > cpusets to get to the same state.
> 
> >>
> >> Guess I'll have to try creating a cpuset per cpu, and see how it
> >> compares to isolcpus.  cset shield --cpu 4-63 didn't work well enough.
> >
> > You need to play with the sched_load_balance file, no idea what this
> > cset utility is though, never encountered it before.
> >
> 
> It's just a python wrapper around the /cgroup file system.

ok, just never encountered it.