Re: [PATCH v4 2/2] watchdog: add watchdog_exclude sysctl to assist nohz

2015-04-05 Thread Ulrich Obergfell
Chris, I'd like to comment on the following proposed change: +int proc_dowatchdog_exclude(struct ctl_table *table, int write, +void __user *buffer, size_t *lenp, loff_t *ppos) +{ +int err; + +mutex_lock(&watchdog_proc_mutex); +err = proc_do_lar

[PATCH v4 2/2] watchdog: add watchdog_exclude sysctl to assist nohz

2015-04-03 Thread cmetcalf
From: Chris Metcalf Change the default behavior of watchdog so it only runs on the housekeeping cores when nohz_full is enabled at build and boot time. Allow modifying the set of cores the watchdog is currently running on with a new kernel.watchdog_exclude sysctl. Signed-off-by: Chris Metcalf