Re: [PATCH] cpuset: Enforce that a child's cpus must be a subset of the parent

Tejun Heo
2018-05-31T16:19:42Z

Hello,

On Thu, May 31, 2018 at 06:16:45PM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> > So, let's please stay away from it even if that means a bit of
> > overhead in terms of interface.
>
> Urgh, that again :/

Yeah, well, it's pretty important.

> I'm still not convinced by your arguments though. The root container can
> access all the sub-groups anyway and can grub around in them to take
> away resources if it really wants to.

That's really messy and if you delegated away a subtree, you can't
walk the subtree in a race free way, not easily anyway.

> For cpuset in particular randomly restricting on the ancestor level can
> create an unrecoverable trainwreck inside a container. Affinities are
> not recoverable. Once a runnable task ends up with an empty set, its
> affinities are reset and the smaller (empty) set is lost.

Yeah, for cpuset, it's messier, but it isn't different from hotunplug
scenario, right? I think the best we can do there is putting ancestor
operation on an equal footing as hotplug ops.

Thanks.

--
tejun