Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 28 Feb 2008 03:17:10 -0600 | From | Paul Jackson <> | Subject | Re: [RFC/PATCH 0/4] CPUSET driven CPU isolation |
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Ingo wrote: > The "bootup" cpuset is just > a convenience container to handle everything that the box booted up > with, and then we can shrink it (without having to enumerate every PID > and every irq and other resource explicitly) to make place for other > cpusets.
I'm not quite sure of what you're thinking here; rather I'm just bouncing off the sound of your words.
But your words sound alot like what we at SGI call a 'boot' cpuset.
Our big honkin NUMA customers, who are managing most of the system either for a few dedicated, very-important jobs, and/or under a batch scheduler, need to leave a few nodes to run the classic Unix load such as init, cron, assorted daemons and the admins login shell.
So we provide them some init script mechanisms that make it easy to set this up, which includes moving every task (not many at the low numbered init script time this runs) that isn't pinned (doesn't have a restricted Cpus_allowed) into the boot cpuset, conventionally named /dev/cpuset/boot.
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