Re: [PATCH] sched: Fix numabalancing to work with isolated cpus

[Michal Hocko]

On Thu 06-04-17 11:23:29, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 06, 2017 at 09:34:36AM +0200, Michal Hocko wrote:
[...]
> > I would really like to see it confirmed by the scheduler maintainers and
> > documented properly as well. What you are claiming here is rather
> > surprising to my understanding of what isolcpus acutally is.
> 
> isolcpus gets you a set of fully partitioned CPUs. What's surprising
> about that?

Well, I thought that all isolated cpus simply form their own scheduling
domain which is isolated from the general workload on the system
(kthreads, softirqs etc...).

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Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs