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* [PATCH] doc: update Linux core isolation guide
@ 2022-05-02  7:24 Pavan Nikhilesh
  2022-05-02 20:17 ` Stephen Hemminger
  2022-05-17 18:08 ` [PATCH v2] " pbhagavatula
  0 siblings, 2 replies; 11+ messages in thread
From: Pavan Nikhilesh @ 2022-05-02  7:24 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: jerinj; +Cc: dev, Pavan Nikhilesh

Update Linux core isolation guide to include isolation from
timers, rcu processing and IRQs.

Signed-off-by: Pavan Nikhilesh <pbhagavatula@marvell.com>
---
 doc/guides/linux_gsg/enable_func.rst | 10 +++++-----
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/doc/guides/linux_gsg/enable_func.rst b/doc/guides/linux_gsg/enable_func.rst
index 1df3ab0255..f567c713e6 100644
--- a/doc/guides/linux_gsg/enable_func.rst
+++ b/doc/guides/linux_gsg/enable_func.rst
@@ -90,16 +90,16 @@ Using Linux Core Isolation to Reduce Context Switches
 -----------------------------------------------------
 
 While the threads used by a DPDK application are pinned to logical cores on the system,
-it is possible for the Linux scheduler to run other tasks on those cores also.
-To help prevent additional workloads from running on those cores,
-it is possible to use the ``isolcpus`` Linux kernel parameter to isolate them from the general Linux scheduler.
+it is possible for the Linux scheduler to run other tasks on those cores.
+To help prevent additional workloads, timers, rcu processing and IRQs from running on those cores, it is possible to use
+the Linux kernel parameters ``isolcpus``, ``nohz_full``, ``irqaffinity`` to isolate them from the general Linux scheduler tasks.
 
-For example, if DPDK applications are to run on logical cores 2, 4 and 6,
+For example, if a given CPU has 0-7 cores and DPDK applications are to run on logical cores 2, 4 and 6,
 the following should be added to the kernel parameter list:
 
 .. code-block:: console
 
-    isolcpus=2,4,6
+    isolcpus=2,4,6 nohz_full=2,4,6 irqaffinity=0,1,3,5,7
 
 .. _High_Precision_Event_Timer:
 
-- 
2.25.1


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