From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Tejun Heo Subject: Re: [RFC] cgroup TODOs Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2012 10:59:44 -0700 Message-ID: <20120914175944.GF17747@google.com> References: <20120913205827.GO7677@google.com> <5052E7DF.7040000@parallels.com> <5052F4FF.6070508@huawei.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <5052F4FF.6070508-hv44wF8Li93QT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: containers-bounces-cunTk1MwBs9QetFLy7KEm3xJsTq8ys+cHZ5vskTnxNA@public.gmane.org Errors-To: containers-bounces-cunTk1MwBs9QetFLy7KEm3xJsTq8ys+cHZ5vskTnxNA@public.gmane.org To: Li Zefan Cc: Lennart Poettering , Neil Horman , "Serge E. Hallyn" , containers-cunTk1MwBs9QetFLy7KEm3xJsTq8ys+cHZ5vskTnxNA@public.gmane.org, Kay Sievers , linux-kernel-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org, Michal Hocko , Ingo Molnar , Paul Mackerras , "Aneesh Kumar K.V" , Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo , Johannes Weiner , Thomas Graf , cgroups-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org, Paul Turner List-Id: containers.vger.kernel.org Hello, On Fri, Sep 14, 2012 at 05:12:31PM +0800, Li Zefan wrote: > Agreed. The biggest issue in cpuset is if hotplug makes a cpuset's cpulist > empty the tasks in it will be moved to an ancestor cgroup, which requires > holding cgroup lock. We have to either change cpuset's behavior or eliminate > the global lock. Does that have to happen synchronously? Can't we have a cgroup operation which asynchronously pushes all tasks in a cgroup to its parent from a work item? Thanks. -- tejun