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From: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
To: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@ezchip.com>,
	Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: "Peter Zijlstra (Intel)" <peterz@infradead.org>,
	"Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>,
	Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] nohz: make nohz_full imply isolcpus
Date: Sat, 04 Apr 2015 10:10:01 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <551FF0B9.4010907@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <551EE7F4.6070406@ezchip.com>

On 04/03/2015 03:20 PM, Chris Metcalf wrote:
> On 04/03/2015 01:42 PM, Frederic Weisbecker wrote:
>> On Fri, Apr 03, 2015 at 12:24:08PM -0400, cmetcalf@ezchip.com wrote:
>>> From: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@ezchip.com>
>>>
>>> It's not clear that nohz_full is useful without isolcpus also
>>> set, since otherwise the scheduler has to run periodically to
>>> try to determine whether to steal work from other cores.
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@ezchip.com>
>> I think Rick has a similar patch.
> 
> I didn't see anything relevant in linux-next, though I did see
> cpu_isolated_map
> made into a public symbol in a recent commit by Rik.

I have a few patches in cgroups/for-4.1 as well that
export information about isolated and nohz_full cpus
in /sys/devices/system/cpu/

> Rik, what's the change you're proposing that's similar to this one? Thanks!

I don't have this particular one, and I like it.

I know there are use cases where isolcpus= without
nohz_full= makes sense, but I cannot think of the
reverse.

Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>

-- 
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  reply	other threads:[~2015-04-04 14:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 89+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-04-03 16:24 [PATCH 1/2] nohz: add tick_nohz_full_set_cpus() API cmetcalf
2015-04-03 16:24 ` [PATCH 2/2] nohz: make nohz_full imply isolcpus cmetcalf
2015-04-03 17:42   ` Frederic Weisbecker
2015-04-03 19:20     ` Chris Metcalf
2015-04-04 14:10       ` Rik van Riel [this message]
2015-04-04 17:09         ` Chris Metcalf
2015-04-05  5:05           ` Ingo Molnar
2015-04-06 17:15             ` Chris Metcalf
2015-04-06 18:16               ` [PATCH v2 1/2] nohz: add tick_nohz_full_clear_cpus() and _set_cpus() APIs cmetcalf
2015-04-06 18:16                 ` [PATCH v2 2/2] nohz: make nohz_full imply isolcpus cmetcalf
2015-04-07 22:29                   ` Frederic Weisbecker
2015-04-08  9:41                   ` Peter Zijlstra
2015-04-08 14:04                     ` Chris Metcalf
2015-04-08 14:26                       ` Peter Zijlstra
2015-04-08 15:21                         ` Chris Metcalf
2015-04-08 17:24                           ` Frederic Weisbecker
2015-04-08 19:20                             ` [PATCH v3 1/2] nohz: add tick_nohz_full_clear_cpus() and _set_cpus() APIs cmetcalf
2015-04-08 19:20                               ` [PATCH v3 2/2] nohz: set isolcpus when nohz_full is set cmetcalf
2015-04-08 17:27                           ` [PATCH v2 2/2] nohz: make nohz_full imply isolcpus Peter Zijlstra
2015-04-08 18:12                             ` Chris Metcalf
2015-04-09  8:29                               ` Peter Zijlstra
2015-04-09 12:02                                 ` Chris Metcalf
2015-04-09 12:45                                   ` Frederic Weisbecker
2015-04-09 16:59                                     ` [PATCH v5] nohz: set isolcpus when nohz_full is set Chris Metcalf
2015-04-09 17:12                                       ` Peter Zijlstra
2015-04-10  1:05                                         ` Mike Galbraith
2015-04-10 15:33                                           ` Chris Metcalf
2015-04-10 15:57                                             ` Mike Galbraith
2015-04-09 17:00                                 ` [PATCH v4 1/2] nohz: add tick_nohz_full_cpumask_or() and _andnot() APIs Chris Metcalf
2015-04-09 17:00                                   ` [PATCH v4 2/2] nohz: set isolcpus when nohz_full is set Chris Metcalf
2015-04-09 17:07                                   ` [PATCH v4 1/2] nohz: add tick_nohz_full_cpumask_or() and _andnot() APIs Peter Zijlstra
2015-04-09 17:24                                     ` Chris Metcalf
2015-04-09 17:42                                       ` Peter Zijlstra
2015-04-09 18:01                                         ` [PATCH v6 1/2] nohz: add tick_nohz_full_add_cpus_to() and _remove_cpus_from() APIs Chris Metcalf
2015-04-09 18:01                                           ` [PATCH v6 2/2] nohz: set isolcpus when nohz_full is set Chris Metcalf
2015-04-10  1:37                                             ` Frederic Weisbecker
2015-04-10 20:53                                               ` [PATCH v7 1/2] nohz: add tick_nohz_full_add_cpus_to() and _remove_cpus_from() APIs Chris Metcalf
2015-04-10 20:53                                                 ` [PATCH v7 2/2] nohz: set isolcpus when nohz_full is set Chris Metcalf
2015-04-14  0:37                                                   ` Frederic Weisbecker
2015-04-14 15:17                                                     ` [PATCH v8 1/2] nohz: add tick_nohz_full_add_cpus_to() API Chris Metcalf
2015-04-14 15:17                                                       ` [PATCH v8 2/2] nohz: set isolcpus when nohz_full is set Chris Metcalf
2015-04-14 15:26                                                         ` Frederic Weisbecker
2015-04-14 16:45                                                           ` Peter Zijlstra
2015-04-14  0:33                                                 ` [PATCH v7 1/2] nohz: add tick_nohz_full_add_cpus_to() and _remove_cpus_from() APIs Frederic Weisbecker
2015-04-14  0:49                                                   ` Chris Metcalf
2015-04-14 15:34                                                     ` Frederic Weisbecker
2015-04-10  1:34                                           ` [PATCH v6 " Frederic Weisbecker
2015-04-10 15:31                                             ` Chris Metcalf
2015-04-06 18:29                 ` [PATCH v2 1/2] nohz: add tick_nohz_full_clear_cpus() and _set_cpus() APIs Frederic Weisbecker
2015-04-06 19:09                   ` Chris Metcalf
2015-04-07  9:33                     ` Ingo Molnar
2015-04-03 18:08   ` [PATCH 2/2] nohz: make nohz_full imply isolcpus Mike Galbraith
2015-04-03 19:21     ` Chris Metcalf
2015-04-04  2:03       ` Mike Galbraith
2015-04-04  3:43         ` Mike Galbraith
2015-04-06 19:28           ` Rik van Riel
2015-04-07  3:10             ` Mike Galbraith
2015-05-06 16:04 [GIT PULL] nohz: A few improvements v4 Frederic Weisbecker
2015-05-06 16:04 ` [PATCH 1/4] context_tracking: Protect against recursion Frederic Weisbecker
2015-05-07  9:58   ` Ingo Molnar
2015-05-07 11:53     ` Frederic Weisbecker
2015-05-07 11:31   ` [tip:timers/nohz] " tip-bot for Frederic Weisbecker
2015-05-06 16:04 ` [PATCH 2/4] context_tracking: Inherit TIF_NOHZ through forks instead of context switches Frederic Weisbecker
2015-05-07 11:31   ` [tip:timers/nohz] " tip-bot for Frederic Weisbecker
2015-05-06 16:04 ` [PATCH 3/4] nohz: Add tick_nohz_full_add_cpus_to() API Frederic Weisbecker
2015-05-07 11:31   ` [tip:timers/nohz] " tip-bot for Chris Metcalf
2015-05-06 16:04 ` [PATCH 4/4] nohz: Set isolcpus when nohz_full is set Frederic Weisbecker
2015-05-07 11:32   ` [tip:timers/nohz] " tip-bot for Chris Metcalf
2015-05-16 19:39   ` [PATCH 4/4] " Sasha Levin
2015-05-17  5:30     ` Mike Galbraith
2015-05-18  2:17       ` Rik van Riel
2015-05-18  3:29         ` Mike Galbraith
2015-05-18 14:07           ` Rik van Riel
2015-05-18 14:22             ` Mike Galbraith
2015-05-18 14:52               ` Rik van Riel
2015-05-19  2:30                 ` Mike Galbraith
2015-06-12 19:12                   ` Rik van Riel
2015-05-20 20:38       ` Afzal Mohammed
2015-05-20 21:00         ` Paul E. McKenney
2015-05-21 12:12           ` Afzal Mohammed
2015-05-21 12:57             ` Paul E. McKenney
2015-05-21 13:06               ` Frederic Weisbecker
2015-05-21 13:27                 ` Paul E. McKenney
2015-05-21 13:29                 ` Afzal Mohammed
2015-05-21 14:14                   ` Paul E. McKenney
2015-05-21 14:46                     ` Frederic Weisbecker
2015-05-21 18:59                 ` Mike Galbraith
2015-05-22 14:39                   ` Frederic Weisbecker
2015-05-22 15:20                     ` Mike Galbraith

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