Re: [PATCH] Documentation/kernel-parameters: Remove "Deprecated" from isolcpus=

[Jonathan Corbet]

Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> The isolcpus= option has been marked as deprecated in 2017. Back then it
> was desired for the domain sub option to be configured dynamically at
> runtime instead using this boot command line which provides a static
> configuration. In the meantime this option was extended by other sub
> options which don't have runtime counterpart or it does not make sense
> to provide one.
>
> The deprecated part always referred to the default `domain' sub option
> but it was not obvious. Also the reasoning behind the deprecation is
> sort of dubious: There is nothing wrong with a static configuration if
> there is no desired to reconfigure. This is useful on systems which
> have one purpose and the CPU partition configuration is not changed for
> the entire lifetime.
>
> Remove the "Deprecated" note. Remove the part of the description which
> suggest to use cpuset.sched_load_balance and instead point to the
> documentation file which explains how to use cpusets to configure this
> at runtime.
>
> Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt | 10 ++++------
>  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

Applied, thanks.

jon