linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v3] cpuset: Enable cpuset controller in default hierarchy

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Message-ID: <20171127214232.GT983427@devbig577.frc2.facebook.com>
Date:   Mon, 27 Nov 2017 13:42:32 -0800
From:   Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>
To:     Waiman Long <longman@...hat.com>
Cc:     Li Zefan <lizefan@...wei.com>,
        Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>,
        Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        cgroups@...r.kernel.org, linux-doc@...r.kernel.org,
        Mike Galbraith <efault@....de>,
        Christian Brauner <christian.brauner@...onical.com>,
        Stéphane Graber <stgraber@...ntu.com>,
        Serge Hallyn <serge@...lyn.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] cpuset: Enable cpuset controller in default hierarchy

Hello, Waiman.

On Mon, Nov 27, 2017 at 04:19:57PM -0500, Waiman Long wrote:
> > Let's start just with [e]cpus and [e]mems.  The flags interface looks
> > fine but the implementations of these features are really bad and
> > cgroup2 doesn't migrate resources for other controllers either anyway.
> 
> That is added because the mem_migrate feature is used in libvirt, I
> think. I am thinking of add a "[EXPERIMENTAL]" tag to the flags to
> indicate that it is subject to change.

I see.  Do you happen to know what it's used for and why that's
necessary just so that we can evaluate it better?  I'm not quite sure
what adding [EXPERIMENTAL] tag would achieve.  If we expose the
feature and people use it, we just have to keep it anyway.

Thanks.

-- 
tejun