9cc5b86568
This is a kernel enhancement that configures the cpu affinity of kernel threads via kernel boot option nohz_full=. When this option is specified, the cpumask is immediately applied upon kthread launch. This does not affect kernel threads that specify cpu and node. This allows CPU isolation (that is not allowing certain threads to execute on certain CPUs) without using the isolcpus=domain parameter, making it possible to enable load balancing on such CPUs during runtime (see kernel-parameters.txt). Note-1: this is based off on Wind River's patch at https://github.com/starlingx-staging/stx-integ/blob/master/kernel/kernel-std/centos/patches/affine-compute-kernel-threads.patch Difference being that this patch is limited to modifying kernel thread cpumask. Behaviour of other threads can be controlled via cgroups or sched_setaffinity. Note-2: Wind River's patch was based off Christoph Lameter's patch at https://lwn.net/Articles/565932/ with the only difference being the kernel parameter changed from kthread to kthread_cpus. Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200527142909.23372-3-frederic@kernel.org
Linux kernel
============
There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.