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SubjectRe: CONFIG_ISOLATION=y (was: [PATCH 0/6] support "dataplane" mode for nohz_full)
On Tue, May 12, 2015 at 11:10:32AM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
>
> So I'd vote for Frederic's CONFIG_ISOLATION=y, mostly because this is
> a high level kernel feature, so it won't conflict with isolation
> concepts in lower level subsystems such as IOMMU isolation - and other
> higher level features like scheduler isolation are basically another
> partial implementation we want to merge with all this...
>

But why do we need a CONFIG flag for something that has no content?

That is, I do not see anything much; except the 'I want to stay in
userspace and kill me otherwise' flag, and I'm not sure that warrants a
CONFIG flag like this.

Other than that, its all a combination of NOHZ_FULL and cpusets/isolcpus
and whatnot.


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