Hello Shrikanth, On 11/21/2025 10:10 AM, Shrikanth Hegde wrote: >> Wouldn't the task be pinned if it is running on a nohz CPU? >> We don't push out pinned tasks so this seems unnecessary. >> Am I missing something? >> > > No. Task will not be pinned if it running on nohz_full unless > user has done a taskset. They are still part of sched domains. > > Pinning is usually true for isolcpus. You need to explicity set taskset > for isolcpus since by default you won't go to those CPUs.
TIL! I was under the impression that nohz_full is a superset of isolcpus but I was clearly mistaken. Thank you for clarifying. -- Thanks and Regards, Prateek
