On Thu, Jan 28 2021 at 13:59, Marcelo Tosatti wrote:
>> The whole pile wants to be reverted. It's simply broken in several ways.
>
> I was asking for your comments on interaction with CPU hotplug :-)
Which I answered in an seperate mail :)
> So housekeeping_cpumask has multiple meanings. In this case:
...
> So as long as the meaning of the flags are respected, seems
> alright.
Yes. Stuff like the managed interrupts preference for housekeeping CPUs
when a affinity mask spawns housekeeping and isolated is perfectly
fine. It's well thought out and has no limitations.
> Nitesh, is there anything preventing this from being fixed
> in userspace ? (as Thomas suggested previously).
Everything with is not managed can be steered by user space.
Thanks,
tglx
