ALCON,

thanks for your replies, of all solutions offered, it looks like isolcpus gets me the closest.

I read up on isolcpus and it seems like it will partition off cores away from automatic spawing of userland threads, which is...close enough to what i want. i did read, however that kworker threads will continue to spawn across all cores. this makes me wonder how it might work in my case though.

if java instances are running on 4 cores, and kworkers can spawn anywhere, isnt all the work being done in java eventually going to end up in a kworker..and therefore just running anywhere?

maybe ill just have to do some testing and see what happens

On Dec 17, 2016 9:23 AM, "Predrag Ivanovic" <predivan@mts.rs> wrote:

On Fri, 16 Dec 2016 17:33:23 -0500
Steve Volumetric wrote:

>Yes, I should have used that phrasing in my question, and I see all that
>(I've already emailed myself a few of the links you provided) thanks for
>those anyway.
>
>My concern/question is more...can I get crux to do that to itself on
>startup...or really, maybe a better way of describing what I would like to
>do is have 4 of my 6 cores untouched by whatever automatically schedules
>jobs so I (and only I) can manually set affinity to jobs on those free
>cores as I choose.
>

Check out Fedora's Tuna/tuned [1][2], they might do what you want.

[1]https://fedorahosted.org/tuned
[2]https://fedorahosted.org/tuna
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