Re: [RFC PATCH 00/32] Nohz cpusets (was: Nohz Tasks)

[Peter Zijlstra]

On Wed, 2011-08-31 at 12:26 +0200, Mike Galbraith wrote:
> On Wed, 2011-08-31 at 11:28 +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> > On Wed, 2011-08-31 at 05:47 +0200, Mike Galbraith wrote:
> > > On Tue, 2011-08-30 at 16:06 +0200, Frederic Weisbecker wrote:
> > > 
> > > > Ah I haven't tested with that isolcpus especially as it's headed toward
> > > > removal.
> > > 
> > > It is?  Is it being replaced by something?  (I find it useful)
> > 
> > cpusets? Afaict all it does is not include a number of cpus in the sched
> > domains, creating a bunch of independent scheduling cpus. You can use
> > cpusets to get to the same state.
> 
> Guess I'll have to try creating a cpuset per cpu, and see how it
> compares to isolcpus.  cset shield --cpu 4-63 didn't work well enough.

You need to play with the sched_load_balance file, no idea what this
cset utility is though, never encountered it before.
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