Use of cores with `isolcpus` and `cpuset` TOGETHER
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I work with a Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 6.9 (Santiago) (I don't manage it). In the GRUB config file we have, let's say,
isolcpus=2-32
(out of 36 cores). I also have a **cgroup** with cpuset=2-32 assigned via cgset.conf to all important processes on that system.
My question is: how do these 2 settings interact?
Normally, when I have isolcpus
, starting a process with taskset -c 2-32
means all threads end up on core 2 as isolcpus
"removes cores from scheduler" as I was told so there is no load balancing.
However, the observed effect of cpuset cgroup is different from taskset
- the various processes and threads end up on different cores.
Could someone explain how isolcpus with taskset
command produces one result, while isolcpus with cgroups/cpusets produce a different one?
Asked by Arkadiy
(171 rep)
Nov 7, 2017, 04:54 PM