Re: [PATCH 1/2] cpusets,isolcpus: exclude isolcpus from load balancing in cpusets

[Zefan Li <lizefan@huawei.com>]

On 2015/2/26 0:38, riel@redhat.com wrote:
> From: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
> 
> Ensure that cpus specified with the isolcpus= boot commandline
> option stay outside of the load balancing in the kernel scheduler.
> 
> Operations like load balancing can introduce unwanted latencies,
> which is exactly what the isolcpus= commandline is there to prevent.
> 
> Previously, simply creating a new cpuset, without even touching the
> cpuset.cpus field inside the new cpuset, would undo the effects of
> isolcpus=, by creating a scheduler domain spanning the whole system,
> and setting up load balancing inside that domain. The cpuset root
> cpuset.cpus file is read-only, so there was not even a way to undo
> that effect.
> 
> This does not impact the majority of cpusets users, since isolcpus=
> is a fairly specialized feature used for realtime purposes.
> 
> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
> Cc: Clark Williams <williams@redhat.com>
> Cc: Li Zefan <lizefan@huawei.com>
> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
> Cc: Luiz Capitulino <lcapitulino@redhat.com>
> Cc: Mike Galbraith <umgwanakikbuti@gmail.com>
> Cc: cgroups@vger.kernel.org
> Signed-off-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
> Tested-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>

Acked-by: Zefan Li <lizefan@huawei.com>