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From: Max Krasnyansky <maxk@qualcomm.com>
To: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Cc: Ingo Oeser <ioe-lkml@rameria.de>,
	Dimitri Sivanich <sivanich@sgi.com>,
	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>,
	Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Con Kolivas <kernel@kolivas.org>,
	"Derek L. Fults" <dfults@sgi.com>, devik <devik@cdi.cz>,
	Dinakar Guniguntala <dino@in.ibm.com>,
	Emmanuel Pacaud <emmanuel.pacaud@univ-poitiers.fr>,
	Frederik Deweerdt <deweerdt@free.fr>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
	Matthew Dobson <colpatch@us.ibm.com>,
	rostedt@goodmis.org, Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>,
	"Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@us.ibm.com>,
	Paul Menage <menage@google.com>,
	"Randy.Dunlap" <rddunlap@osdl.org>,
	suresh.b.siddha@intel.com, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Subject: Re: Inquiry: Should we remove "isolcpus= kernel boot option? (may have realtime uses)
Date: Tue, 03 Jun 2008 20:00:12 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4846053C.3090201@qualcomm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200806041118.40675.nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>



Nick Piggin wrote:
> On Wednesday 04 June 2008 09:47, Max Krasnyanskiy wrote:
 >> Dimitri, you can probably use that too. ie Boot the thing with most CPUs
>> offline and then bring them online. That way you'll know for sure that no
>> timers, works, hard-/soft-irqs, etc are running on them.
> 
> When you bring a CPU online, in theory the sched domains should get
> set up for them, so you should start seeing processes get migrated
> onto it, and with them timers work queues etc.
> 
> If you have irqbalanced running, it probably migrates irqs onto them
> as well if it needs to.

Sure. My suggestion assumes that system wide balancing is disabled (via top
level cpuset) and that IRQ affinity masks are properly setup. I mentioned that
in my earlier emails.

Max

  reply	other threads:[~2008-06-04  3:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 60+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-06-02  2:30 Inquiry: Should we remove "isolcpus= kernel boot option? (may have realtime uses) Paul Jackson
2008-06-02 16:42 ` Dimitri Sivanich
2008-06-02 18:39   ` Max Krasnyansky
2008-06-02 21:41     ` Dimitri Sivanich
2008-06-02 21:59       ` Max Krasnyansky
2008-06-03 14:40         ` Dimitri Sivanich
2008-06-03 17:57           ` Max Krasnyanskiy
2008-06-04 14:00           ` Dimitri Sivanich
2008-06-04 18:07             ` Stop machine threads are getting preemted by the rt period enforcement Max Krasnyansky
2008-06-04 18:18               ` Peter Zijlstra
2008-06-04 18:24                 ` Max Krasnyansky
2008-06-04 18:55                   ` Peter Zijlstra
2008-06-04 20:14                     ` Max Krasnyansky
2008-06-02 22:35 ` Inquiry: Should we remove "isolcpus= kernel boot option? (may have realtime uses) Ingo Oeser
2008-06-02 22:45   ` Peter Zijlstra
2008-06-02 23:04     ` Max Krasnyansky
2008-06-02 23:55       ` Ingo Oeser
2008-06-03  3:32         ` Max Krasnyansky
2008-06-03 23:47           ` Max Krasnyanskiy
2008-06-04  0:41             ` Paul Jackson
2008-06-04  4:32               ` Max Krasnyansky
2008-06-04  4:47                 ` Paul Jackson
2008-06-04 12:18                 ` Andi Kleen
2008-06-04 17:41                   ` Paul Jackson
2008-06-04 18:29                     ` Max Krasnyansky
2008-06-04 18:56                       ` Peter Zijlstra
2008-06-04 19:34                         ` Max Krasnyansky
2008-06-04 18:58                       ` Paul Jackson
2008-06-04 19:31                         ` Max Krasnyansky
2008-06-04 19:37                           ` Paul Jackson
2008-06-04 19:45                             ` Max Krasnyansky
2008-06-04 20:05                       ` Andi Kleen
2008-06-04 20:23                         ` Paul Jackson
2008-06-04 20:03                     ` Andi Kleen
2008-06-04 20:16                       ` Paul Jackson
2008-06-04 20:33                         ` Andi Kleen
2008-06-04 20:38                           ` Paul Jackson
2008-06-04 21:16                             ` Max Krasnyansky
2008-06-04 21:17                               ` Paul Jackson
2008-06-04 21:20                                 ` Max Krasnyansky
2008-06-04 21:26                                   ` Paul Jackson
2008-06-04  1:18             ` Nick Piggin
2008-06-04  3:00               ` Max Krasnyansky [this message]
2008-06-04 16:18             ` Ingo Oeser
2008-06-04 17:47               ` Max Krasnyansky
2008-06-03  6:03     ` Nick Piggin
2008-06-04  9:58       ` Mark Hounschell
2008-06-04 17:26         ` Paul Jackson
2008-06-04 21:00           ` Mark Hounschell
2008-06-04 21:03             ` Paul Jackson
2008-06-04 19:26         ` Max Krasnyansky
2008-06-04 20:25           ` Peter Zijlstra
2008-06-04 21:44             ` Michael Trimarchi
2008-06-04 21:52               ` Peter Zijlstra
2008-06-05 11:16                 ` Michael Trimarchi
2008-06-05 12:07                   ` Peter Zijlstra
2008-06-05 14:57                     ` Michael Trimarchi
2009-05-08  2:48               ` GeunSik Lim
2008-06-05 11:44             ` Mark Hounschell
2008-06-06 22:28               ` Max Krasnyanskiy

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