On Thu 06-04-17 11:23:29, Peter Zijlstra wrote: > On Thu, Apr 06, 2017 at 09:34:36AM +0200, Michal Hocko wrote: [...] > > I would really like to see it confirmed by the scheduler maintainers and > > documented properly as well. What you are claiming here is rather > > surprising to my understanding of what isolcpus acutally is. > > isolcpus gets you a set of fully partitioned CPUs. What's surprising > about that?
Well, I thought that all isolated cpus simply form their own scheduling domain which is isolated from the general workload on the system (kthreads, softirqs etc...). -- Michal Hocko SUSE Labs