Re: [RFC PATCH 0/1] sched/fair: Feature to suppress Fair Server for NOHZ_FULL isolation

[Aaron Tomlin]

On Fri, Jan 09, 2026 at 10:21:07AM +0100, Valentin Schneider wrote:
> Gotcha. Do you have any specific examples for these per-CPU kthreads? We
> should have features to prevent most of these (e.g. workqueue cpumasks),
> and if not then that's something we could look into.
> 
> As for userspace messing things up... Well, not much we can do here, other
> than preventing that via e.g. cpusets so only your latency-sensitive tasks
> are allowed to be migrated on the isolated CPUs.

Hi Valentin,

To your point regarding specific examples of these per-CPU kthreads, I do
not have any illustrative cases to hand at the moment. However, I shall
attempt to reproduce the scenario to identify which specific threads are
eluding our current isolation boundaries.

I certainly concur with your final observation regarding userspace
interference; there is, indeed, little to be done beyond enforcing strict
partitioning via cpusets to ensure only latency-sensitive tasks are
permitted to migrate to isolated CPUs.

That being said, the suggestion made by Peter, namely, to prevent the
enqueue on the isolated CPU - is a particularly compelling one.

Please see [1].


[1]: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/zmjr43kk2m52huk2vvetvwefil7waletzuijiu5y34v3n4slgi@3wdtd3xckx7m/

Kind regards,
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Aaron Tomlin

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