linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 0/4] CPU hotplug, cpusets: Fix CPU online handling related to cpusets

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Date:	Fri, 10 Feb 2012 08:53:38 -0800
From:	"Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
To:	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>
Cc:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	"Srivatsa S. Bhat" <srivatsa.bhat@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	paul@...lmenage.org, rjw@...k.pl, tj@...nel.org,
	frank.rowand@...sony.com, pjt@...gle.com, tglx@...utronix.de,
	lizf@...fujitsu.com, prashanth@...ux.vnet.ibm.com,
	vatsa@...ux.vnet.ibm.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-pm@...r.kernel.org,
	"akpm@...ux-foundation.org" <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/4] CPU hotplug, cpusets: Fix CPU online handling
 related to cpusets

On Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 04:52:07PM +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Thu, 2012-02-09 at 16:11 +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> 
> > > My understanding of the code is that when a CPU is taken 
> > > offline, it is removed from all the cpusets and then the 
> > > scan_for_empty_cpusets() function is run to move tasks from 
> > > empty cpusets to their parent cpusets.
> > 
> > Why is that done that way? offlining a CPU should be an 
> > invariant as far as cpusets are concerned.
> 
> Can't, tasks need to run someplace. There's two choices, add a still
> online cpu to the now empty cpuset or move the tasks to a parent that
> still has online cpus.
> 
> Both are destructive.

OK, I will ask the stupid question...  Hey, somebody has to!  ;-)

Would it make sense for offlining the last CPU in a cpuset to be
destructive, but to allow offlining of a non-last CPU to be reversible?

For example, assume that cpuset A has CPUs 0 and 1, and cpuset B has
1, 2, and 3.  Then offlining any single CPU and then onlining it would
restore the cpusets to their original state.  Offlining both CPUs 0 and 1
would be destructive to cpuset A, so that onlining those two CPUs would
leave any tasks in cpuset A in some ancestor of cpuset A, and would
leave cpuset A with no assigned CPUs.  However, that same operation
(offlining both CPUs 0 and 1, then onlining them) would restore cpuset
B to its original state, covering CPUs 1, 2, and 3.

/me ducks.  ;-)

							Thanx, Paul

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