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From: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
To: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>, Martin Bligh <mbligh@google.com>,
	Paul Menage <menage@google.com>,
	Simon.Derr@bull.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Dinakar Guniguntala <dino@in.ibm.com>,
	Rohit Seth <rohitseth@google.com>, Robin Holt <holt@sgi.com>,
	dipankar@in.ibm.com, "Siddha,
	Suresh B" <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC] cpuset: add interface to isolated cpus
Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2006 20:17:14 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <453750AA.1050803@yahoo.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20061019092607.17547.68979.sendpatchset@sam.engr.sgi.com>

Paul Jackson wrote:
> From: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com>
> 
> Enable user code to isolate CPUs on a system from the domains that
> determine scheduler load balancing.
> 
> This is already doable using the boot parameter "isolcpus=".  The folks
> running realtime code on production systems, where some nodes are
> isolated for realtime, and some not, and where it is unacceptable
> to reboot to adjust this, need to be able to change which CPUs are
> isolated from the scheduler balancing code on the fly.
> 
> This is done by exposing the kernels cpu_isolated_map as a cpumask
> in the root cpuset directory, in a file called 'isolated_cpus',
> where it can be read and written by sufficiently privileged user code.

This should be done outside cpusets.

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  reply	other threads:[~2006-10-19 10:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 34+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-10-19  9:26 [RFC] cpuset: add interface to isolated cpus Paul Jackson
2006-10-19 10:17 ` Nick Piggin [this message]
2006-10-19 17:55   ` Paul Jackson
2006-10-19 18:07     ` Nick Piggin
2006-10-19 18:56       ` Paul Jackson
2006-10-19 19:03         ` Nick Piggin
2006-10-20  3:37           ` Paul Jackson
2006-10-20  8:02             ` Nick Piggin
2006-10-20 14:52               ` Nick Piggin
2006-10-20 20:03                 ` Paul Jackson
2006-10-20 19:59               ` Paul Jackson
2006-10-20 20:01               ` Paul Jackson
2006-10-20 20:59                 ` Siddha, Suresh B
2006-10-21  1:33                   ` Paul Jackson
2006-10-21  6:14                 ` Nick Piggin
2006-10-21  7:24                   ` Paul Jackson
2006-10-21 10:51                     ` Nick Piggin
2006-10-22  4:54                       ` Paul Jackson
2006-10-20 21:04 ` Dinakar Guniguntala
2006-10-23  3:18   ` Paul Jackson
2006-10-23  5:07     ` Nick Piggin
2006-10-23  5:51       ` Paul Jackson
2006-10-23  5:40         ` Siddha, Suresh B
2006-10-23  6:06           ` Paul Jackson
2006-10-23  6:07           ` Paul Jackson
2006-10-23  6:17         ` Nick Piggin
2006-10-23  6:41           ` Paul Jackson
2006-10-23  6:49             ` Nick Piggin
2006-10-23  6:48           ` Paul Jackson
2006-10-23 20:58           ` Paul Jackson
2006-10-23 19:50       ` Dinakar Guniguntala
2006-10-23 20:47         ` Paul Jackson
2006-10-24 15:44           ` Paul Jackson
2006-10-25 19:40         ` Paul Jackson

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