linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v3 5/5] cpusets, suspend: Save and restore cpusets during suspend/resume

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Date:	Mon, 14 May 2012 21:04:16 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>
To:	Nishanth Aravamudan <nacc@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
cc:	"Srivatsa S. Bhat" <srivatsa.bhat@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 5/5] cpusets, suspend: Save and restore cpusets during
 suspend/resume

On Mon, 14 May 2012, Nishanth Aravamudan wrote:

> > I see what you're doing with this and think it will fix the problem that 
> > you're trying to address, but I think it could become much more general 
> > to just the suspend case: if an admin sets a cpuset to have cpus 4-6, for 
> > example, and cpu 5 goes offline, then I believe the cpuset should once 
> > again become 4-6 if cpu 5 comes back online.  So I think this should be 
> > implemented like mempolicies are which save the user intended nodemask 
> > that may become restricted by cpuset placement but will be rebound if the 
> > cpuset includes the intended nodes.
> 
> Heh, please read the thread at
> http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=133615922717112&w=2 ... subject is
> "[PATCH v2 0/7] CPU hotplug, cpusets: Fix issues with cpusets handling
> upon CPU hotplug". That was effectively the same solution Srivatsa
> originally posted. But after lengthy discussions with PeterZ and others,
> it was decided that suspend/resume is a special case where it makes
> sense to save "policy" but that generally cpu/memory hotplug is a
> destructive operation and nothing is required to be retained (that
> certain policies are retained is unfortunately now expected, but isn't
> guaranteed for cpusets, at least).
> 

If you do set_mempolicy(MPOL_BIND, 2-3) to bind a thread to nodes 2-3 that 
is attached to a cpuset whereas cpuset.mems == 2-3, and then cpuset.mems 
changes to 0-1, what is the expected behavior?  Do we immediately oom on 
the next allocation?  If cpuset.mems is set again to 2-3, what's the 
desired behavior?

I fixed this problem by introducing MPOL_F_* flags in set_mempolicy(2) by 
saving the user intended nodemask passed by set_mempolicy() and respecting 
it whenever allowed by cpusets.

Right now, the behavior of what happens for a cpuset where cpuset.cpus == 
2-3 and then cpus 2-3 go offline and then are brought back online is 
undefined.  The same is true of cpuset.cpus during resume.  So if you're 
going to add a cpumask to struct cpuset, then why not respect it for all 
offline events and get rid of all this specialized suspend-only stuff?  
It's very simple to make this consistent across all cpu hotplug events and 
build suspend on top of it from a cpuset perspective.
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