linux-kernel - Re: current linux-2.6.git: cpusets completely broken

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Date:	Sat, 12 Jul 2008 01:53:19 +0200
From:	"Dmitry Adamushko" <dmitry.adamushko@...il.com>
To:	"Max Krasnyansky" <maxk@...lcomm.com>
Cc:	"Vegard Nossum" <vegard.nossum@...il.com>,
	"Paul Menage" <menage@...gle.com>, "Paul Jackson" <pj@....com>,
	"Peter Zijlstra" <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>, miaox@...fujitsu.com,
	rostedt@...dmis.org, "Thomas Gleixner" <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	"Linux Kernel" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: current linux-2.6.git: cpusets completely broken

2008/7/12 Max Krasnyansky <maxk@...lcomm.com>:
> Dmitry Adamushko wrote:
>>
>> Does the patch below help?
>>
>> (non-white-space-damaged version is attached)
>>
>> diff --git a/kernel/cpuset.c b/kernel/cpuset.c
>> index 9fceb97..ae61dc9 100644
>> --- a/kernel/cpuset.c
>> +++ b/kernel/cpuset.c
>> @@ -1912,11 +1912,21 @@ static void common_cpu_mem_hotplug_unplug(void)
>>  static int cpuset_handle_cpuhp(struct notifier_block *unused_nb,
>>                                unsigned long phase, void *unused_cpu)
>>  {
>> -       if (phase == CPU_DYING || phase == CPU_DYING_FROZEN)
>> +       swicth (phase) {
>> +       case CPU_UP_CANCELED:
>> +       case CPU_UP_CANCELED_FROZEN:
>> +       case CPU_DOWN_FAILED:
>> +       case CPU_DOWN_FAILED_FROZEN:
>> +       case CPU_ONLINE:
>> +       case CPU_ONLINE_FROZEN:
>> +       case CPU_DEAD:
>> +       case CPU_DEAD_FROZEN:
>> +               common_cpu_mem_hotplug_unplug();
>> +               break;
>> +       default:
>>                return NOTIFY_DONE;
>
> I was always wondering why we're running that logic for every hotplug event.
> For example, do we care for UP_CANCELED* and DOWN_FAILED* ? Presumably
> nothing should've changed, no ?

I guess, it's to revert the effect of CPU_{DOWN | UP}_PREPARE.

e.g. CPU_DOWN_PREPARE detaches/destroys sched-domains... so if a
cpu-down op. fails, we restore them to their inital state.


> btw I'm just going by the name of the event. So UP_CANCELED to me sounds
> like CPU never got to the ONLINE stage and cpuset should not really care.

Yes, if it has not done anything for UP_PREPARE (and no one else on
behave of it).


>
> Max
>

-- 
Best regards,
Dmitry Adamushko
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