linux-kernel - Re: boot cgroup questions

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Message-Id: <20080312142414.71c5731f.pj@sgi.com>
Date:	Wed, 12 Mar 2008 14:24:14 -0500
From:	Paul Jackson <pj@....com>
To:	"Paul Menage" <menage@...gle.com>
Cc:	maxk@...lcomm.com, mingo@...e.hu, a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: boot cgroup questions

Paul M wrote:
> Not cgroups, no. If you really wanted to extend cpusets specifically
> to allow irqs to be assigned to a cpuset to control which cpus they
> could execute on, then that might be a possibility. But I don't see
> how this would be useful for any other cgroup subsystem, so it doesn't
> belong in the generic framework.

Ok - a sensible decision.

> My feeling is that just using a simple bitmask assignment, unrelated
> to cpusets or cgroups, as Max suggested in his later email is the way
> to go.

I'll have to have another go at reading his replies.  I seem to have
more difficulty making sense of his posts ... not sure why.

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