Re: [PATCH 2/2] nohz: make nohz_full imply isolcpus

From: Ingo Molnar
Date: Sun Apr 05 2015 - 01:06:10 EST



* Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On 4/4/2015 10:10 AM, Rik van Riel wrote:
> >>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@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Thanks, I'll push it via the tile tree unless someone would prefer otherwise.

Yes, I'd prefer otherwise: please send the final, agreed upon patch to
the timer tree.

> (The tick_nohz_full_set_cpus() and tick_nohz_full_clear_cpus()
> routines are in earlier tile tree commits, the latter supporting a
> change to the tile network driver.)

This is absolutely not OK, please push this through the timer tree. We
don't do generic timer changes through architecture trees.

Thanks,

Ingo
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