is there any dynamic equivalent to the "isolcpus=managed_irq" boot arg?

From: Chris Friesen
Date: Thu Oct 24 2024 - 15:04:17 EST


Hi all,

In the kernel boot args we can specify something like "isolcpus=managed_irq,nohz,domain,<cpu-list>" to tell the kernel to isolate a given set of CPUs and *also* prevent them from being targeted by managed interrupts.

The boot-time isolcpus mechanism is deprecated, so is there a runtime equivalent to tell the kernel to avoid certain CPUs for managed interrupts? I just stumbled over https://lkml.org/lkml/2024/9/16/563 which makes me think the answer might be that no such mechanism exists currently.

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Thanks,
Chris Friesen