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Message-ID: <ZDmFLfII8EUX_ocY@slm.duckdns.org>
Date:   Fri, 14 Apr 2023 06:54:05 -1000
From:   Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>
To:     Waiman Long <longman@...hat.com>
Cc:     Zefan Li <lizefan.x@...edance.com>,
        Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>,
        Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>,
        Shuah Khan <shuah@...nel.org>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        cgroups@...r.kernel.org, linux-doc@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kselftest@...r.kernel.org,
        Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@...hat.com>,
        Valentin Schneider <vschneid@...hat.com>,
        Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@...nel.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 0/5] cgroup/cpuset: A new "isolcpus" paritition

On Thu, Apr 13, 2023 at 09:22:19PM -0400, Waiman Long wrote:
> I now have a slightly different idea of how to do that. We already have an
> internal cpumask for partitioning - subparts_cpus. I am thinking about
> exposing it as cpuset.cpus.reserve. The current way of creating
> subpartitions will be called automatic reservation and require a direct
> parent/child partition relationship. But as soon as a user write anything to
> it, it will break automatic reservation and require manual reservation going
> forward.
> 
> In that way, we can keep the old behavior, but also support new use cases. I
> am going to work on that.

I'm not sure I fully understand the proposed behavior but it does sound more
quirky.

Thanks.

-- 
tejun

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