Re: [PATCH v4 2/4] sched/isolation: Extend nohz_full to isolate managed IRQs

From: Nitesh Narayan Lal
Date: Fri Oct 23 2020 - 09:58:54 EST



On 10/23/20 9:29 AM, Frederic Weisbecker wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 23, 2020 at 03:25:05PM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
>> On Mon, Sep 28, 2020 at 02:35:27PM -0400, Nitesh Narayan Lal wrote:
>>> Extend nohz_full feature set to include isolation from managed IRQS. This
>> So you say it's for managed-irqs, the feature is actually called
>> MANAGED_IRQ, but, AFAICT, it does *NOT* in fact affect managed IRQs.
>>
>> Also, as per Thomas' earlier points, managed-irqs are in fact perfectly
>> fine and don't need help at at...
>>
>>> is required specifically for setups that only uses nohz_full and still
>>> requires isolation for maintaining lower latency for the listed CPUs.
>>>
>>> Suggested-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Ah and yes there is this tag :-p
>
> So that's my bad, I really thought this thing was about managed IRQ.
> The problem is that I can't find a single documentation about them so I'm
> too clueless on that matter.

I am also confused with this terminology.
So my bad for not taking care of this.

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Thanks
Nitesh

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