[PATCH 07/41] cpuset: Set up interface for nohz flag

[Christoph Lameter]

On Tue, 8 May 2012, Peter Zijlstra wrote:

> isolating how? The only way to do that is with the (broken) isolcpus
> crap and cpusets. There is no other way.

For some reason this seems to work here. What is broken with isolcpus?

> Furthermore there is no other partitioning scheme, cpusets is it.

One can partition the system anyway one wants by setting cpu affinities
and memory policies etc. No need for cpusets/cgroups.