[PATCH net 8/8] sched/isolation: Make HK_TYPE_KTHREAD an alias of HK_TYPE_DOMAIN

Pablo Neira Ayuso <[email protected]> Tue, 5 May 2026 02:16:48 +0200
Newsgroups org.kernel.vger.lvs-devel,org.kernel.vger.netdev,org.kernel.vger.netfilter-devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
From: Waiman Long <[email protected]>

Since commit 041ee6f3727a ("kthread: Rely on HK_TYPE_DOMAIN for preferred
affinity management"), kthreads default to use the HK_TYPE_DOMAIN
cpumask. IOW, it is no longer affected by the setting of the nohz_full
boot kernel parameter.

That means HK_TYPE_KTHREAD should now be an alias of HK_TYPE_DOMAIN
instead of HK_TYPE_KERNEL_NOISE to correctly reflect the current kthread
behavior. Make the change as HK_TYPE_KTHREAD is still being used in
some networking code.

Fixes: 041ee6f3727a ("kthread: Rely on HK_TYPE_DOMAIN for preferred affinity management")
Signed-off-by: Waiman Long <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Julian Anastasov <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <[email protected]>
---
 include/linux/sched/isolation.h | 6 +++++-
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/include/linux/sched/isolation.h b/include/linux/sched/isolation.h
index dc3975ff1b2e..cf0fd03dd7a2 100644
--- a/include/linux/sched/isolation.h
+++ b/include/linux/sched/isolation.h
@@ -20,6 +20,11 @@ enum hk_type {
 	HK_TYPE_KERNEL_NOISE,
 	HK_TYPE_MAX,
 
+	/*
+	 * HK_TYPE_KTHREAD is now an alias of HK_TYPE_DOMAIN
+	 */
+	HK_TYPE_KTHREAD = HK_TYPE_DOMAIN,
+
 	/*
 	 * The following housekeeping types are only set by the nohz_full
 	 * boot commandline option. So they can share the same value.
@@ -29,7 +34,6 @@ enum hk_type {
 	HK_TYPE_RCU     = HK_TYPE_KERNEL_NOISE,
 	HK_TYPE_MISC    = HK_TYPE_KERNEL_NOISE,
 	HK_TYPE_WQ      = HK_TYPE_KERNEL_NOISE,
-	HK_TYPE_KTHREAD = HK_TYPE_KERNEL_NOISE
 };
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_CPU_ISOLATION
-- 
2.47.3