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Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 00/32] Nohz cpusets (was: Nohz Tasks)
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On Wed, 2011-08-31 at 17:05 +0300, Gilad Ben-Yossef wrote:
> > Guess I'll have to try creating a cpuset per cpu, and see how it
> > compares to isolcpus.  cset shield --cpu 4-63 didn't work well enough.
> 
> Try adding:
> 
> # cset shield --kthread on

Yeah, did that.

Killing load balancing in the cpuset should eliminate the problem.
Well, for the test app I was running anyway, which has everything
pinned, and pure RT.

	-Mike