linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v7 4/5] cpuset: Restrict load balancing off cpus to subset of cpus.isolated

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Message-ID: <20180501205828.GD2368884@devbig577.frc2.facebook.com>
Date:   Tue, 1 May 2018 13:58:28 -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,
        Mike Galbraith <efault@....de>, torvalds@...ux-foundation.org,
        Roman Gushchin <guro@...com>,
        Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v7 4/5] cpuset: Restrict load balancing off cpus to
 subset of cpus.isolated

Hello,

On Tue, May 01, 2018 at 04:33:45PM -0400, Waiman Long wrote:
> I think that will work too. We currently don't have a flag to make a
> file visible on first-level children only, but it shouldn't be hard to
> make one.

I think it'd be fine to make the flag file exist on all !root cgroups
but only writable on the first level children.

> Putting CPUs into an isolated child cpuset means removing it from the
> root's effective CPUs. So I would probably like to expose the read-only
> cpus.effective in the root cgroup so that we can check changes in the
> effective cpu list.

Ah, yeah, that makes sense.

> I will renew the patchset will your suggestion.

Thank you very much.

-- 
tejun