> The idea was to have a system, and run all jobs on it through a batch 
> scheduler. Some jobs cared about performance, some didn't.
> 
> The ones who cared about performance got an 'exclusive' cpuset, the ones 
> who didn't got a 'non exclusive' cpuset.

OK, makes sense. Thanks for that.
 
> Of course, in our case, a valid argument is that 'exclusiveness' should 
> not be enforced by the kernel but rather by the job scheduler. Probably.
> 
> But now I see that the discussion is going towards:
> -fully exclusive cpusets, maybe even with no interrupts handling
> -maybe only allow exclusive cpusets, since non-exclusive cpusets are 
> tricky wrt CKRM.

Nope - personally I see us more headed for the exclusive cpusets, and
handle the non-exclusive stuff via a more CKRM-style mechanism. Which
I still think achieves what you need, though perhaps not in exactly the
fashion you envisioned.

M.



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