linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] sched: Relax a restriction in sched_rt_can

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Date:	Mon, 4 May 2015 12:39:39 +0800
From:	Zefan Li <lizefan@...wei.com>
To:	Mike Galbraith <umgwanakikbuti@...il.com>
CC:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
	Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>, LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Cgroups <cgroups@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] sched: Relax a restriction in sched_rt_can_attach()

On 2015/5/4 11:13, Mike Galbraith wrote:
> On Mon, 2015-05-04 at 08:54 +0800, Zefan Li wrote:
>> It's allowed to promote a task from normal to realtime after it has been
>> attached to a non-root cgroup, but it will fail if the attaching happens
>> after it has become realtime. I don't see how this restriction is useful.
> 
> In the CONFIG_RT_GROUP_SCHED case, promotion will fail is there is no
> bandwidth allocated.
> 

Right. I forgot to mention this patch affects !CONFIG_RT_GROUP_SCHED only,
though it should be obvious by reading the change.

>> We are moving toward unified hierarchy where all the cgroup controllers
>> are bound together, so it would make cgroups easier to use if we have less
>> restrictions on attaching tasks between cgroups.
> 
> Forcing group scheduling overhead on users if they want cpuset or memory
> cgroup functionality would be far from wonderful.  Am I interpreting the
> implications of this unification/binding properly?
> 
> (I hope not, surely the plan is not to utterly _destroy_ cgroup utility)
> 

Some degree of flexibility is provided so that you may disable some controllers
in a subtree. For example:

root                  ---> child1
(cpuset,memory,cpu)        (cpuset,memory)
                      \
                       \-> child2
                           (cpu)

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