Adriaan Schmidt

Yes, this is a useful change! It's actually one of the fixes we proposed to Debian to make the bootloader plugin work: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=988851

> Regarding the cgroups, there is support for cgroups v1 in the scheduler plugin and we would also like to add support for the v2 for completeness. It could be...

> Do we need the first instance here? Although your approach with the first instance being the instance with the plugin name works, it's a new TuneD paradigm. What about...

Pushed updated implementation: * `default_smp_affinity` is now handled by a virtual device `DEFAULT`, eliminating the need for a "first/main instance". * instances have a `mode` option: `set` always applies the...

Just stumbled across this issue... Tuning of individual interrupts is actually possible now (https://github.com/redhat-performance/tuned/commit/1aeb223b74a3683da6ca36bfc8ba23fcd7a73572). And for services, I would recommend doing this via SystemD, by setting their `AllowedCPUs`.