Re: [RFC PATCH 0/8] cgroup/cpuset: Support RCU_NOCB on isolated partitions

[Waiman Long]

On 1/17/24 12:07, Tejun Heo wrote:
> Hello,
>
> On Wed, Jan 17, 2024 at 11:35:03AM -0500, Waiman Long wrote:
> > The first 2 patches are adopted from Federic with minor twists to fix
> > merge conflicts and compilation issue. The rests are for implementing
> > the new cpuset.cpus.isolation_full interface which is essentially a flag
> > to globally enable or disable full CPU isolation on isolated partitions.
> I think the interface is a bit premature. The cpuset partition feature is
> already pretty restrictive and makes it really clear that it's to isolate
> the CPUs. I think it'd be better to just enable all the isolation features
> by default. If there are valid use cases which can't be served without
> disabling some isolation features, we can worry about adding the interface
> at that point.

My current thought is to make isolated partitions act like 
isolcpus=domain, additional CPU isolation capabilities are optional and 
can be turned on using isolation_full. However, I am fine with making 
all these turned on by default if it is the consensus.

Cheers,
Longman