Re: [PATCH] nohz: Revert "nohz: Set isolcpus when nohz_full is set"

[Chris Metcalf]

On 10/12/2015 01:42 PM, Frederic Weisbecker wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 12, 2015 at 12:55:24PM -0400, Chris Metcalf wrote:
> > >On 10/12/2015 12:53 PM, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> > >
> > >Is it worth starting to think about grouping things under the
> > >"task isolation" model somehow?  "task_isolation_cpus=1-31"
> > >or some such for this, and then that just sets up the nohz_full
> > >and isolcpus options under the hood?
> Yeah if I could do it again, I would have rather created something like
> cpu_isolation= (which name would conflict with isolcpus though)

Well, it only sort of conflicts.  I think given that they would be clearly
documented they are different enough not to create too much
confusion.  And cpu_isolation really does seem like a good name.

--
Chris Metcalf, EZChip Semiconductor
http://www.ezchip.com

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