Re: [PATCH] nohz: Revert "nohz: Set isolcpus when nohz_full is set"

Chris Metcalf
2015-10-12T18:03:44Z

On 10/12/2015 01:42 PM, Frederic Weisbecker wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 12, 2015 at 12:55:24PM -0400, Chris Metcalf wrote:
>> >On 10/12/2015 12:53 PM, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
>> >
>> >Is it worth starting to think about grouping things under the
>> >"task isolation" model somehow? "task_isolation_cpus=1-31"
>> >or some such for this, and then that just sets up the nohz_full
>> >and isolcpus options under the hood?
> Yeah if I could do it again, I would have rather created something like
> cpu_isolation= (which name would conflict with isolcpus though)

Well, it only sort of conflicts. I think given that they would be clearly
documented they are different enough not to create too much
confusion. And cpu_isolation really does seem like a good name.

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Chris Metcalf, EZChip Semiconductor