Isolspus=1 still needed?

The convention is to use
isolcpus=1,2,3 for a quad core to isolate 3 cores.

I can only imagine this is because the scheduler tries to address the cores in ascending order, so having the available core as the first it finds, is more efficient

From what I've seen it can pay to experiment with other settings. Try 1,2,3 or 0,1 or 2,3 as well for comparison.

I tried the rest of the combos tonight 0,1,2 yielded the best latency results.

Jake wrote: I tried the rest of the combos tonight 0,1,2 yielded the best latency results.

How is overall system performance at other tasks with those settings?
It is no use having excellent real-time latency if the rest of the system slows to a crawl.

Hello, I have a dual core processor, please describe to me step by step how to set up one core for linuxcnc.
Plate 785GM-E51
Processor AMD Athlon 2 2x3.2 G
System LinuxCNC 2.8.0 Debian 10 Buster

j@j:~$ cat /proc/cpuinfo
processor : 0
vendor_id : AuthenticAMD
cpu family : 16
model : 6
model name : AMD Athlon(tm) II X2 250 Processor
stepping : 2
microcode : 0x1000098
cpu MHz : 2300.000
cache size : 1024 KB
physical id : 0
siblings : 2
core id : 0
cpu cores : 2
apicid : 0
initial apicid : 0
fpu : yes
fpu_exception : yes
cpuid level : 5
wp : yes
flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush mmx fxsr sse sse2 ht syscall nx mmxext fxsr_opt pdpe1gb rdtscp lm 3dnowext 3dnow constant_tsc rep_good nopl nonstop_tsc cpuid extd_apicid pni monitor cx16 popcnt lahf_lm cmp_legacy svm extapic cr8_legacy abm sse4a misalignsse 3dnowprefetch osvw ibs skinit wdt hw_pstate vmmcall npt lbrv svm_lock nrip_save
bugs : tlb_mmatch fxsave_leak sysret_ss_attrs null_seg spectre_v1 spectre_v2
bogomips : 6027.31
TLB size : 1024 4K pages
clflush size : 64
cache_alignment : 64
address sizes : 48 bits physical, 48 bits virtual
power management: ts ttp tm stc 100mhzsteps hwpstate

processor : 1
vendor_id : AuthenticAMD
cpu family : 16
model : 6
model name : AMD Athlon(tm) II X2 250 Processor
stepping : 2
microcode : 0x1000098
cpu MHz : 3000.000
cache size : 1024 KB
physical id : 0
siblings : 2
core id : 1
cpu cores : 2
apicid : 1
initial apicid : 1
fpu : yes
fpu_exception : yes
cpuid level : 5
wp : yes
flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush mmx fxsr sse sse2 ht syscall nx mmxext fxsr_opt pdpe1gb rdtscp lm 3dnowext 3dnow constant_tsc rep_good nopl nonstop_tsc cpuid extd_apicid pni monitor cx16 popcnt lahf_lm cmp_legacy svm extapic cr8_legacy abm sse4a misalignsse 3dnowprefetch osvw ibs skinit wdt hw_pstate vmmcall npt lbrv svm_lock nrip_save
bugs : tlb_mmatch fxsave_leak sysret_ss_attrs null_seg spectre_v1 spectre_v2
bogomips : 6027.31
TLB size : 1024 4K pages
clflush size : 64
cache_alignment : 64
address sizes : 48 bits physical, 48 bits virtual
power management: ts ttp tm stc 100mhzsteps hwpstate

j@j:~$