On Thu, Apr 06, 2017 at 12:13:49PM +0200, Michal Hocko wrote: > On Thu 06-04-17 11:23:29, Peter Zijlstra wrote: > > On Thu, Apr 06, 2017 at 09:34:36AM +0200, Michal Hocko wrote: > [...] > > > I would really like to see it confirmed by the scheduler maintainers and > > > documented properly as well. What you are claiming here is rather > > > surprising to my understanding of what isolcpus acutally is. > > > > isolcpus gets you a set of fully partitioned CPUs. What's surprising > > about that? > > Well, I thought that all isolated cpus simply form their own scheduling > domain which is isolated from the general workload on the system > (kthreads, softirqs etc...).
No, they all form their own 1 cpu partition.
