linux-kernel - Re: cpusets not cpu hotplug aware

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Date:	Mon, 21 Aug 2006 15:54:30 +0200 (CEST)
From:	Simon Derr <Simon.Derr@...l.net>
To:	Anton Blanchard <anton@...ba.org>
Cc:	pj@....com, simon.derr@...l.net, nathanl@...tin.ibm.com,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: cpusets not cpu hotplug aware

On Mon, 21 Aug 2006, Anton Blanchard wrote:

> 
> Hi,
> 
> We have a bug report where sched_setaffinity fails for cpus that are
> hotplug added after boot. Nathan found this suspicious piece of code:
> 
> void __init cpuset_init_smp(void)
> {
>         top_cpuset.cpus_allowed = cpu_online_map;
>         top_cpuset.mems_allowed = node_online_map;
> }
> 
> Any reason we statically set the top level cpuset to the boot time cpu
> online map?
> 

Are you suggesting that all possible cpus should be in the top cpuset, 
instead of all existing cpus ?

I'd prefer the hotplugged CPUs being added to the top cpuset afterwards.

	Simon.

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