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From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
To: Luiz Capitulino <lcapitulino@redhat.com>
Cc: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	Vikas Shivappa <vikas.shivappa@intel.com>,
	Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>, Yu Fenghua <fenghua.yu@intel.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC] ioctl based CAT interface
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 2015 10:03:33 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20151116090333.GL17308@twins.programming.kicks-ass.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20151113140438.3d8e2e11@redhat.com>

On Fri, Nov 13, 2015 at 02:04:38PM -0500, Luiz Capitulino wrote:
> I guess that what Peter is saying is that we don't want tasks
> attached to a reservation landing on a CPU where the reservation
> might be different or not existent at all.

Correct.

> This way, the ATTACH_RESERVATION command would fail if any
> of the CPUs in the cpumask are not part of the reservation.
> And then our code would have to be notified any time the process'
> affinity mask is changed (we either fail the affinity change
> or detach the process automatically from the reservation). Does
> this sound like a good solution?

No. We're not going to have random drivers muck about with affinity
masks, and most certainly not some manky ioctl.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2015-11-16  9:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-11-13 16:39 [PATCH RFC] ioctl based CAT interface Marcelo Tosatti
2015-11-13 16:51 ` Peter Zijlstra
2015-11-13 17:27   ` Marcelo Tosatti
2015-11-13 17:43     ` Marcelo Tosatti
2015-11-16  8:59       ` Peter Zijlstra
2015-11-16 13:03         ` Marcelo Tosatti
2015-11-16 14:42           ` Thomas Gleixner
2015-11-16 19:52             ` Marcelo Tosatti
2015-11-16 15:01           ` Peter Zijlstra
2015-11-16 19:54             ` Marcelo Tosatti
2015-11-16 21:22             ` Marcelo Tosatti
2015-11-13 19:04     ` Luiz Capitulino
2015-11-13 20:22       ` Marcelo Tosatti
2015-11-16  9:03       ` Peter Zijlstra [this message]
2015-11-13 17:33   ` Marcelo Tosatti
2015-11-16  9:07     ` Peter Zijlstra
2015-11-16 14:37       ` Marcelo Tosatti
2015-11-16 15:37         ` Peter Zijlstra
2015-11-16 16:18       ` Luiz Capitulino
2015-11-16 16:26         ` Peter Zijlstra
2015-11-16 16:48           ` Luiz Capitulino
2015-11-16 16:39       ` Marcelo Tosatti
2015-11-17  1:01         ` Marcelo Tosatti
2015-11-13 18:01   ` Marcelo Tosatti
2015-11-16  9:09     ` Peter Zijlstra
2015-11-13 19:08 ` Luiz Capitulino
2015-12-03 21:58 ` Pavel Machek

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