Re: [PATCH cgroup/for-4.21 1/2] cpuset: Minor cgroup2 interface updates

[Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>]

Hello, Peter.

On Tue, Nov 20, 2018 at 01:46:24PM +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> Why though? The Changelog doesn't give rationale for the actual changes.

Ah yeah, sorry about that.

> And I'm not sure I agree with either one of them.
> 
> The partition is a scheduling feature;

So is everything with cpuset.cpus prefix.  They're all modifying how
scheduler handles the cpus.

> and I like 0/1 much better to type, so why not allow that?

Mostly for consistency and it's generally better to keep interfaces
minimal - e.g. what if we need to add support for more key words to
the file?  Would we assign incrementing integers to them?

Thanks.

-- 
tejun