Re: [patch 3/3] isolcpus: undeprecate on documentation

[Marcelo Tosatti]

On Tue, Mar 31, 2020 at 05:22:17PM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 28, 2020 at 12:21:20PM -0300, Marcelo Tosatti wrote:
> > isolcpus is used to control steering of interrupts to managed_irqs and
> > kernel threads, therefore its incorrect to state that its deprecated.
> > 
> > Remove deprecation warning.
> > 
> > Suggested-by: Chris Friesen <chris.friesen@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > 
> > ---
> >  Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt |    1 -
> >  1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)
> > 
> > Index: linux-2.6/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
> > ===================================================================
> > --- linux-2.6.orig/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
> > +++ linux-2.6/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
> > @@ -1926,7 +1926,6 @@
> >  			Format: <RDP>,<reset>,<pci_scan>,<verbosity>
> >  
> >  	isolcpus=	[KNL,SMP,ISOL] Isolate a given set of CPUs from disturbance.
> > -			[Deprecated - use cpusets instead]
> >  			Format: [flag-list,]<cpu-list>
> >  
> 
> It's still an absolute horrible piece of crap though. nozh_full piling
> more and more shit on it doesn't make it more shiny.

Hi Peter,

Why do you dislike it? What you think would be a decent approach?