linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 0/7] CPU hotplug, cpusets: Fix issues with cpusets handling upon CPU hotplug

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Date:	Mon, 07 May 2012 23:26:14 +0800
From:	Jiang Liu <liuj97@...il.com>
To:	"Srivatsa S. Bhat" <srivatsa.bhat@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
CC:	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>,
	Nishanth Aravamudan <nacc@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	mingo@...nel.org, pjt@...gle.com, paul@...lmenage.org,
	akpm@...ux-foundation.org, rjw@...k.pl, nacc@...ibm.com,
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	mschmidt@...hat.com, berrange@...hat.com,
	nikunj@...ux.vnet.ibm.com, vatsa@...ux.vnet.ibm.com,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-doc@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-pm@...r.kernel.org, stern@...land.harvard.edu
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 0/7] CPU hotplug, cpusets: Fix issues with cpusets
 handling upon CPU hotplug

On 05/06/2012 01:15 AM, Srivatsa S. Bhat wrote:
>> I, personally, think we should just kill of tasks in cpuset-constrained
>> environments that are nonsensical (no memory, no cpus, etc.). 
> 
> 
> Even I think just killing the tasks or maybe even preventing such destructive
> hotplug (last cpu in a cpuset going offline) would have been way more
> easier to handle and also logical.. and userspace would have been more
> cautious while dealing with cpusets, from the beginning....
On one another OS, there's a "force" flag for cpu_down(). If cpu_down() is
called with the "force" flag as false, the request will be rejected if 
any cpuset becomes empty; otherwise it will try to assign other CPUs to
the empty cpusets.

So the administrator could choose different behaviors.

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