Re: [RFC] cpuset: add interface to isolated cpus

[Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com>]

Nick wrote:
> These are both part of the same larger solution, which is to
> partition domains. isolated CPUs are just the case of 1 CPU in
> its own domain (and that's how they are implemented now).

and later, he also wrote:
> I think this is much more of an automatic behind your back thing.

I got confused there.

I agree that if we can do a -good- job of it, then an implicit,
automatic solution is better for the problem of reducing sched domain
partition sizes on large systems than yet another manual knob.

But I thought that it was good idea, with general agreement, to provide
an explicit control of isolated cpus for the real-time folks, even if
under the covers it use sched domain partitions of size 1 to implement
it.

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