Date: Fri, 2 Nov 2012 20:16:58 +0000
From: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
To: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
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        Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
        Clark Williams <clark.williams@gmail.com>,
        Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>,
        Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>,
        Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/32] [RFC] nohz/cpuset: Start discussions on nohz
 CPUs
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On Fri, 2 Nov 2012, Paul E. McKenney wrote:

> So I believe that these need to be controlled separately for the immediate
> future.

Yes they do but the configurations are similar and it would be best if
these were cpumasks in standard locations instead of being specified at
boot time or in a cpuset.

Put the cpu masks into

/sys/devices/system/cpu/{nohz_cpus,rcu_cpus}

or so?
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