linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH RFC] cpuset: Make cpusets get restored on hotplug

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Date:   Thu, 26 Mar 2020 15:48:55 -0400
From:   Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>
To:     Joel Fernandes <joel@...lfernandes.org>
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Dmitry Shmidt <dimitrysh@...gle.com>,
        Amit Pundir <amit.pundir@...aro.org>, kernel-team@...roid.com,
        jsbarnes@...gle.com, sonnyrao@...gle.com, vpillai@...italocean.com,
        peterz@...radead.org, Guenter Roeck <groeck@...omium.org>,
        Waiman Long <longman@...hat.com>,
        Greg Kerr <kerrnel@...gle.com>, cgroups@...r.kernel.org,
        Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>,
        Li Zefan <lizefan@...wei.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC] cpuset: Make cpusets get restored on hotplug

On Thu, Mar 26, 2020 at 03:44:48PM -0400, Joel Fernandes wrote:
> It is not really that big a change. Please go over the patch, we are not
> changing anything with how ->cpus_allowed works and interacts with the rest
> of the system and the scheduler. We have just introduced a new mask to keep
> track of which CPUs were requested without them being affected by hotplug. On
> CPU onlining, we restore the state of ->cpus_allowed as not be affected by
> hotplug.

It's not the code. It's the behavior. I'm not flipping the behavior for
the existing cgroup1 users underneath them at this point. As-is, it's a
hard nack. If you really really really want it, put it behind a mount
option.

-- 
tejun