linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 7/7] CPU controller V1

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Date:	Tue, 22 Aug 2006 15:40:28 +0530
From:	Srivatsa Vaddagiri <vatsa@...ibm.com>
To:	Mike Galbraith <efault@....de>
Cc:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>, Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@...oo.com.au>,
	Sam Vilain <sam@...ain.net>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Kirill Korotaev <dev@...nvz.org>,
	Balbir Singh <balbir@...ibm.com>, sekharan@...ibm.com,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>, nagar@...son.ibm.com,
	matthltc@...ibm.com, dipankar@...ibm.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 7/7] CPU controller V1 - (temporary) cpuset interface

On Tue, Aug 22, 2006 at 11:10:36AM +0000, Mike Galbraith wrote:
> Doesn't seem to work here, but maybe I'm doing something wrong.
> 
> I set up cpuset "all" containing cpu 0-1 (all, 1.something cpus I have;)

You are assigning all the CPUs to the cpuset "all" and then making it an
exclusive/metered cpuset?

I dont think I am handling that case well (yet), primarily because usage of 
remaining tasks (which are not in cpuset "all", "mikeg" & "root") is not 
accounted/controlled. Note that those remaining tasks will be running on one of 
the CPUs assigned to "all". What needs to happen is those remaining tasks need 
to be moved to a separate group (and a runqueue), being given some left-over 
CPU quota (which is left over from assignment of quota to mikeg and root), 
which is not handled in the patches (yet). One of the reason why I havent 
handled it yet is that there is no easy way to retrieve list of tasks attached 
to a cpuset.

Can you try assigning (NUM_CPUS-1) cpus to "all" and give it a shot?
Essentially you need to ensure that only tasks chosen by you are running in 
cpus given to "all" and other child-cpusets under it.

-- 
Regards,
vatsa
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