Re: [patch 3/3] isolcpus: undeprecate on documentation

Frederic Weisbecker
2020-03-31T15:43:26Z

On Tue, Mar 31, 2020 at 05:22:17PM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 28, 2020 at 12:21:20PM -0300, Marcelo Tosatti wrote:
> > isolcpus is used to control steering of interrupts to managed_irqs and
> > kernel threads, therefore its incorrect to state that its deprecated.
> >
> > Remove deprecation warning.
> >
> > Suggested-by: Chris Friesen <chris.friesen@windriver.com>
> > Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
> >
> > ---
> > Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt | 1 -
> > 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)
> >
> > Index: linux-2.6/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
> > ===================================================================
> > --- linux-2.6.orig/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
> > +++ linux-2.6/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
> > @@ -1926,7 +1926,6 @@
> > Format: <RDP>,<reset>,<pci_scan>,<verbosity>
> >
> > isolcpus= [KNL,SMP,ISOL] Isolate a given set of CPUs from disturbance.
> > - [Deprecated - use cpusets instead]
> > Format: [flag-list,]<cpu-list>
> >
>
> It's still an absolute horrible piece of crap though. nozh_full piling
> more and more shit on it doesn't make it more shiny.

Right. I still plan to propagate it to the cpuset mountpoints at some future
so that this becomes mutable.