linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v4 2/2] cpusets,isolcpus: add file to show isolated cpus in cpuset

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Message-ID: <20150302091213.GI21418@twins.programming.kicks-ass.net>
Date:	Mon, 2 Mar 2015 10:12:13 +0100
From:	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
To:	Zefan Li <lizefan@...wei.com>
Cc:	Rik van Riel <riel@...hat.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Clark Williams <williams@...hat.com>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
	Luiz Capitulino <lcapitulino@...hat.com>,
	David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>,
	Mike Galbraith <umgwanakikbuti@...il.com>,
	cgroups@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 2/2] cpusets,isolcpus: add file to show isolated cpus
 in cpuset

On Mon, Mar 02, 2015 at 02:15:39PM +0800, Zefan Li wrote:
> Hi Rik,
> 
> > Subject: cpusets,isolcpus: add file to show isolated cpus in cpuset
> > 
> > The previous patch makes it so the code skips over isolcpus when
> > building scheduler load balancing domains. This makes it hard to
> > see for a user which of the CPUs in a cpuset are participating in
> > load balancing, and which ones are isolated cpus.
> > 
> > Add a cpuset.isolcpus file with info on which cpus in a cpuset are
> > isolated CPUs.
> > 
> > This file is read-only for now. In the future we could extend things
> > so isolcpus can be changed at run time, for the root (system wide)
> > cpuset only.
> > 
> 
> One Question, why not add a /sys/devices/system/cpu/isolated instead?

It would leave userspace to calculate the result for any one cpuset
itself. Furthermore, is that /sys thing visible for all nested
containers?
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