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

From	Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@ezchip.com>
Newsgroups	linux.kernel
Subject	Re: [PATCH] nohz: Revert "nohz: Set isolcpus when nohz_full is set"
Date	2015-10-12 20:10 +0200
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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.

-- 
Chris Metcalf, EZChip Semiconductor
http://www.ezchip.com

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[PATCH] nohz: Revert "nohz: Set isolcpus when nohz_full is set" Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> - 2015-10-12 17:30 +0200
  Re: [PATCH] nohz: Revert "nohz: Set isolcpus when nohz_full is set" "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> - 2015-10-12 17:40 +0200
    Re: [PATCH] nohz: Revert "nohz: Set isolcpus when nohz_full is set" Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> - 2015-10-12 18:30 +0200
      Re: [PATCH] nohz: Revert "nohz: Set isolcpus when nohz_full is set" "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> - 2015-10-12 19:00 +0200
        Re: [PATCH] nohz: Revert "nohz: Set isolcpus when nohz_full is set" Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@ezchip.com> - 2015-10-12 19:00 +0200
          Re: [PATCH] nohz: Revert "nohz: Set isolcpus when nohz_full is set" Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> - 2015-10-12 19:50 +0200
            Re: [PATCH] nohz: Revert "nohz: Set isolcpus when nohz_full is  set" Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> - 2015-10-12 19:50 +0200
              Re: [PATCH] nohz: Revert "nohz: Set isolcpus when nohz_full is set" Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> - 2015-10-12 20:00 +0200
              Re: [PATCH] nohz: Revert "nohz: Set isolcpus when nohz_full is set" Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> - 2015-10-12 20:00 +0200
                Re: [PATCH] nohz: Revert "nohz: Set isolcpus when nohz_full is set" "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> - 2015-10-12 20:30 +0200
                Re: [PATCH] nohz: Revert "nohz: Set isolcpus when nohz_full is  set" Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> - 2015-10-12 20:30 +0200
              Re: [PATCH] nohz: Revert "nohz: Set isolcpus when nohz_full is set" "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> - 2015-10-12 20:00 +0200
            Re: [PATCH] nohz: Revert "nohz: Set isolcpus when nohz_full is set" Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@ezchip.com> - 2015-10-12 20:10 +0200
  Re: [PATCH] nohz: Revert "nohz: Set isolcpus when nohz_full is  set" Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> - 2015-10-12 22:00 +0200

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