On 8/10/2017 8:54 AM, Frederic Weisbecker wrote:
But perhaps I should add a new NO_HZ_FULL_BUT_HOUSEKEEPING option. Otherwise we'll change the meaning of NO_HZ_FULL_ALL way too much, to the point that its default behaviour will be the exact opposite of the current one: by default every CPU is housekeeping, so NO_HZ_FULL_ALL would have no effect anymore if we don't set housekeeping boot option.
Maybe a CONFIG_HOUSEKEEPING_BOOT_ONLY as a way to restrict housekeeping by default to just the boot cpu. In conjunction with NOHZ_FULL_ALL you would then get the expected semantics.
Also I plan to add a housekeeping option to offload the residual 1Hz tick from nohz_full CPUs. So having "housekeeping=0,tick_offload" would make CPU 0 the housekeeper, make the other CPUs nohz_full and handle their 1hz tick from CPU 0.
It does seem like that might be implied by requesting NOHZ_FULL on the core... or maybe it's just implied by TASK_ISOLATION. I've done a bad job of finding time to work on that since last year's Plumbers, but September looks good :) -- Chris Metcalf, Mellanox Technologies http://www.mellanox.com
