[PATCH v6 2/2] nohz: set isolcpus when nohz_full is set

[Chris Metcalf]

nohz_full is only useful with isolcpus also set, since otherwise the
scheduler has to run periodically to try to determine whether to steal
work from other cores.

Accordingly, when booting with nohz_full=xxx on the command line, we
should act as if isolcpus=xxx was also set, and set (or extend) the
isolcpus set to include the nohz_full cpus.

Signed-off-by: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
I've come full circle on this issue.  For v5 I liked Frederic's
idea of adding an API, but the more I thought about it seemed
like an overly-generic mechanism for what is really a very specific
issue, namely the interaction between the scheduler and nohz_full.
We already have plenty of nohz_full-specific code in sched/core.c,
and I think we now have a cpumask function name that is OK, so
now I'm proposing we just stick with directly modifying the
cpu_isolated_map using the new name.  However, I've moved the
update to the map right to the top of sched_init_smp(), which seems
like a cleaner place to make this kind of a change.

v6: back to just using a direct update, with the new names

v5: test run of Frederic's proposal to use sched_isolated_map_add()

v4: update accessor names to make them clearer [PeterZ]

v3: update changelog language to avoid using unclear "implies" [PeterZ]

 kernel/sched/core.c | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/kernel/sched/core.c b/kernel/sched/core.c
index f0f831e8a345..041845c568d2 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/core.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/core.c
@@ -7031,6 +7031,9 @@ void __init sched_init_smp(void)
 	alloc_cpumask_var(&non_isolated_cpus, GFP_KERNEL);
 	alloc_cpumask_var(&fallback_doms, GFP_KERNEL);
 
+	/* nohz_full won't take effect without isolating the cpus. */
+	tick_nohz_full_remove_cpus_from(cpu_isolated_map);
+
 	sched_init_numa();
 
 	/*
-- 
2.1.2

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