> These are what I'm worried about, and things like kswapd, pdflush, > could definitely use a huge amount of CPU. > > If you are interested in hard partitioning the system, you most > definitely want these things to be balanced across the non-isolated > CPUs.
But these guys are pinned anyway (or else they would already be moved into a smaller load balanced cpuset), so why waste time load balancing what can't move? And on some of the systems I care about, we don't want to load balance these guys; rather we go to great lengths to see that they don't run at all when we don't want them to. -- I won't rest till it's the best ... Programmer, Linux Scalability Paul Jackson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 1.925.600.0401 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/