linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v5 1/2] cpuset: Enable cpuset controller in default hierarchy

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Date:   Tue, 20 Mar 2018 14:14:17 -0700
From:   Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>
To:     Waiman Long <longman@...hat.com>
Cc:     Li Zefan <lizefan@...wei.com>,
        Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>,
        Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>, cgroups@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-doc@...r.kernel.org,
        kernel-team@...com, pjt@...gle.com, luto@...capital.net,
        efault@....de, torvalds@...ux-foundation.org,
        Roman Gushchin <guro@...com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 1/2] cpuset: Enable cpuset controller in default
 hierarchy

Hello,

On Tue, Mar 20, 2018 at 04:53:37PM -0400, Waiman Long wrote:
> ASAIK for v2, when cpuset.cpus is empty, cpuset.effective_cpus will show
> all the cpus available from the parent. It is a different behavior from
> v1. So do we still need a cpuset.cpus_available?

Heh, you're right.  Let's forget about available and do
cpuset.cpus.effective.  The primary reason for suggesting that was
because of the similarity with cgroup.controllers and
cgroup.subtree_control; however, they're that way because
subtree_control is delegatable.  For a normal resource knob like
cpuset.cpus, the knob is owned by the parent and what's interesting to
the parent is its effective set that it's distributing from.

Thanks.

-- 
tejun