From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752069AbYE2Faj (ORCPT ); Thu, 29 May 2008 01:30:39 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751055AbYE2Faa (ORCPT ); Thu, 29 May 2008 01:30:30 -0400 Received: from relay1.sgi.com ([192.48.171.29]:59070 "EHLO relay.sgi.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751023AbYE2Fa3 (ORCPT ); Thu, 29 May 2008 01:30:29 -0400 Date: Thu, 29 May 2008 00:30:19 -0500 From: Paul Jackson To: Max Krasnyansky Cc: mingo@elte.hu, a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, menage@google.com, rostedt@goodmis.org, maxk@qualcomm.com Subject: Re: [PATCH] [sched] Give cpusets exclusive control over sched domains (ie remove cpu_isolated_map) Message-Id: <20080529003019.985de0ab.pj@sgi.com> In-Reply-To: <1211926006-11559-3-git-send-email-maxk@qualcomm.com> References: <1211926006-11559-1-git-send-email-maxk@qualcomm.com> <1211926006-11559-2-git-send-email-maxk@qualcomm.com> <1211926006-11559-3-git-send-email-maxk@qualcomm.com> Organization: SGI X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 2.2.4 (GTK+ 2.12.0; i686-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Max wrote: > -marked isolated using the kernel boot time "isolcpus=" argument. Yeah ... a hack ... but I suspect some folks use it. I'm reluctant to discard features visible to users, unless they are getting in the way of more serious stuff. I'd have figured that this hack was not all that much of a pain to the kernel code. -- I won't rest till it's the best ... Programmer, Linux Scalability Paul Jackson 1.940.382.4214