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From: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>
To: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Luiz Capitulino <lcapitulino@redhat.com>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
	Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@mellanox.com>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>,
	"Paul E . McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Wanpeng Li <kernellwp@gmail.com>, Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] isolation: 1Hz residual tick offloading v3
Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2018 23:53:45 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180116225333.GB32665@lerouge> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1516125498.6599.23.camel@gmx.de>

On Tue, Jan 16, 2018 at 06:58:18PM +0100, Mike Galbraith wrote:
> On Tue, 2018-01-16 at 16:41 +0100, Frederic Weisbecker wrote:
> > On Fri, Jan 12, 2018 at 02:18:13PM -0500, Luiz Capitulino wrote:
> > 
> > > Why are extending isolcpus= given that it's a deprecated interface?
> > > Some people have already moved away from isolcpus= now, but with this
> > > new feature they will be forced back to using it.
> > 
> > I tried to remove isolcpus or at least change the way it works so that its
> > effects are reversible (ie: affine the init task instead of isolating domains)
> > but that got nacked due to the behaviour's expectations for userspace.
> 
> So we paint ourselves into a static corner forever more, despite every
> bit of this being all about "properties of sets of cpus", ie precisely
> what cpusets was born to do.  That's sad, dynamic wasn't that far away.

Hence why we need to propagate "isolcpus=" to cpusets.

  reply	other threads:[~2018-01-16 22:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-01-04  4:25 [GIT PULL] isolation: 1Hz residual tick offloading v3 Frederic Weisbecker
2018-01-04  4:25 ` [PATCH 1/5] sched: Rename init_rq_hrtick to hrtick_rq_init Frederic Weisbecker
2018-01-04  4:25 ` [PATCH 2/5] sched/isolation: Add scheduler tick offloading interface Frederic Weisbecker
2018-01-04  4:25 ` [PATCH 3/5] nohz: Allow to check if remote CPU tick is stopped Frederic Weisbecker
2018-01-04  4:25 ` [PATCH 4/5] sched/isolation: Residual 1Hz scheduler tick offload Frederic Weisbecker
2018-01-12 19:22   ` Luiz Capitulino
2018-01-16 15:57     ` Frederic Weisbecker
2018-01-16 16:53       ` Luiz Capitulino
2018-01-04  4:25 ` [PATCH 5/5] sched/isolation: Document "nohz_offload" flag Frederic Weisbecker
2018-01-12 19:18 ` [GIT PULL] isolation: 1Hz residual tick offloading v3 Luiz Capitulino
2018-01-16 15:41   ` Frederic Weisbecker
2018-01-16 16:52     ` Luiz Capitulino
2018-01-16 22:51       ` Frederic Weisbecker
2018-01-17 17:38         ` Luiz Capitulino
2018-01-18  3:04           ` Frederic Weisbecker
2018-01-18 14:02             ` Luiz Capitulino
2018-01-16 17:58     ` Mike Galbraith
2018-01-16 22:53       ` Frederic Weisbecker [this message]
2018-01-17 14:51       ` Christopher Lameter
2018-01-17 15:59         ` Mike Galbraith
2018-01-17 16:32           ` Christopher Lameter
2018-01-17 16:58             ` Mike Galbraith

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