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

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Date:	Tue, 05 May 2015 08:02:40 +0200
From:	Mike Galbraith <umgwanakikbuti@...il.com>
To:	Zefan Li <lizefan@...wei.com>
Cc:	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.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 Tue, 2015-05-05 at 11:46 +0800, Zefan Li wrote:
> On 2015/5/4 22:09, Mike Galbraith wrote:
> > On Mon, 2015-05-04 at 14:37 +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> >> On Mon, May 04, 2015 at 05:11:10PM +0800, Zefan Li wrote:
> >>
> >>> 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)
> >>
> >> Uhm, how does that work? Would a task their effective cgroup be the
> >> first parent that has a controller enabled?
> >>
> >> In particular, in your example, if T were part of child1, would its cpu
> >> controller be root?
> 
> correct.
> 
> > 
> > That's what I'd hope for.  I wanted to try that cgroup.subtree_control
> > gizmo to see for myself, but I don't have one, and probably won't get
> > one until I introduce systemd to my axe (again, it's a slow learner).
> > 
> 
> I'm testing in an environment without systemd.

Lucky you.

> You need to mount cgroup with a special option:
> 
>   # mount -t cgroup -o __DEVEL__sane_behavior xxx /where
> 
> If a cgroup controller has already been mounted without this option,
> you won't see it in the unified hierarchy, so firstly you need to
> delete all cgroups in it and umount it.

Yeah, I found the flag, and systemd is indeed in the way.  You already
verified what subtree_control does, so I needn't squabble with the vile
thing over cgroups possession... immediately anyway.

	-Mike

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