Re: [RFC][PATCH] Restricted hard realtime

From: Paul E. McKenney
Date: Sat Oct 23 2004 - 15:48:15 EST


On Sat, Oct 23, 2004 at 10:17:24PM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
>
> * Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > + bool "Reserve a CPU for hard realtime processes"
>
> this has been implemented in a clean way already: check out the
> "isolcpus=" boot option & scheduler feature (implemented by Dimitri
> Sivanich) which isolates a set of CPUs via sched-domains for precisely
> such purposes. The way to enter such a domain is via the affinity
> syscall - and balancing will leave such domains isolated.

Thank you for the tip -- I will look this over!

Thanx, Paul
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