CPU Isolation

[Poul-Henning Kamp]

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In message <AC6FACC4-2403-41B7-B7E6-738A692929A2 at FreeBSD.org>, "Babak Farrokhi" writes:

>AFAIK there is no way to do it pre-boot. To do the isolation post-boot your
>best bet is cpuset(1) (with which I could not totally isolate cpu cores
>as dedicated application cores).

The trick is to move /sbin/init to /sbin/init.real and create a
/sbin/init shell script which cpuset's PID=1 then exec's /sbin/init.real

Be aware that the surroundings of that shell script are very sparse.

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