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On Tue, 2015-05-26 at 15:51 -0400, Chris Metcalf wrote:

> On balance I suspect it's still better to make command line arguments
> handle the common cases most succinctly.

I prefer user specifies precisely, but yeah, that entails more typing.  

Idle curiosity: can SGI monster from hell boot a NO_HZ_FULL_ALL kernel,
w/wo it implying isolcpus?  Readers having same and a reactor to power
it in their basement, please test.

	-Mike