Re: [PATCH 2/2] nohz: make nohz_full imply isolcpus

From: Frederic Weisbecker
Date: Fri Apr 03 2015 - 13:43:12 EST


On Fri, Apr 03, 2015 at 12:24:08PM -0400, cmetcalf@xxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> From: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> It's not clear that nohz_full is useful without isolcpus also
> set, since otherwise the scheduler has to run periodically to
> try to determine whether to steal work from other cores.
>
> Signed-off-by: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@xxxxxxxxxx>

I think Rick has a similar patch.

> ---
> I am puzzled why this has not been done before, so I suspect
> there is some argument against it that I am missing, but I
> wasn't able to turn anything up by searching LKML.
>
> kernel/sched/core.c | 1 +
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
>
> diff --git a/kernel/sched/core.c b/kernel/sched/core.c
> index f0f831e8a345..275f12c608f2 100644
> --- a/kernel/sched/core.c
> +++ b/kernel/sched/core.c
> @@ -6836,6 +6836,7 @@ static int init_sched_domains(const struct cpumask *cpu_map)
> doms_cur = alloc_sched_domains(ndoms_cur);
> if (!doms_cur)
> doms_cur = &fallback_doms;
> + tick_nohz_full_set_cpus(cpu_isolated_map);
> cpumask_andnot(doms_cur[0], cpu_map, cpu_isolated_map);
> err = build_sched_domains(doms_cur[0], NULL);
> register_sched_domain_sysctl();
> --
> 2.1.2
>
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