I have a Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 6.9 (Santiago) (I don't manage it). In the GRUB config file I have, let's say, isolcpus=2-32 (out of 36 cores). I also have a cgroup with cpuset=2-32 assigned via cgset.conf to all important processes on that system.
My question is: how do these 2 settings interact?
Normally when I start a process with taskset -c 2-32 all threads end up on core 2 as isolcpus "removes cores from scheduler" as I was told so there is no load balancing.
However, the observed effect of cpuset is different - the various processes and threads end up on different cores.
Could someone explain how isolcpus and taskset command produces one result, while isolcpus and cgroups/cpusets produce a different one?
