linux-kernel - Re: [rfc] forked kernel task and mm structures imbalanced on NUMA

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Date:	Tue, 01 Jun 2010 10:49:54 +0200
From:	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
To:	Nick Piggin <npiggin@...e.de>
Cc:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>, linux-mm@...ck.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@...com>,
	"Serge E. Hallyn" <serue@...ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [rfc] forked kernel task and mm structures imbalanced on NUMA

On Tue, 2010-06-01 at 10:16 +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> I'd have to again look at wth happens to ->cpus_allowed, but I guess
> it should be fixable

Ah, I remember, cgroup_clone was a massive pain, Serge said he'd wanted
to kill that, but I don't think that ever happened.

    copy_process():
      if (current->nsproxy != p->nsproxy)
         ns_cgroup_clone()
           cgroup_clone()
             mutex_lock(inode->i_mutex)
             mutex_lock(cgroup_mutex)
             cgroup_attach_task()
           ss->can_attach()
               ss->attach() [ -> cpuset_attach() ]
                 cpuset_attach_task()
                   set_cpus_allowed_ptr();

was the code path that made set_cpus_allowed_ptr() exclusion against
fork interesting.


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