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* [PATCH 0/2] cpusets,isolcpus: resolve conflict between cpusets and isolcpus
@ 2015-02-23 21:45 riel
  2015-02-23 21:45 ` [PATCH 1/2] cpusets,isolcpus: exclude isolcpus from load balancing in cpusets riel
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  0 siblings, 3 replies; 10+ messages in thread
From: riel @ 2015-02-23 21:45 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: linux-kernel

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.


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2015-02-23 21:45 [PATCH 0/2] cpusets,isolcpus: resolve conflict between cpusets and isolcpus riel
2015-02-23 21:45 ` [PATCH 1/2] cpusets,isolcpus: exclude isolcpus from load balancing in cpusets riel
2015-02-25  2:10   ` David Rientjes
2015-02-23 21:45 ` [PATCH 2/2] cpusets,isolcpus: add file to show isolated cpus in cpuset riel
2015-02-25  2:15   ` David Rientjes
2015-02-25  3:30     ` Rik van Riel
2015-02-24  2:18 ` [PATCH 0/2] cpusets,isolcpus: resolve conflict between cpusets and isolcpus Mike Galbraith
2015-02-24 14:13   ` Rik van Riel
2015-02-24 14:22     ` Mike Galbraith
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