Re: [PATCH v7 0/5] cpuset: Enable cpuset controller in default hierarchy

Waiman Long
2018-04-23T14:10:42Z

On 04/23/2018 09:57 AM, Juri Lelli wrote:
> On 23/04/18 15:07, Juri Lelli wrote:
>> Hi Waiman,
>>
>> On 19/04/18 09:46, Waiman Long wrote:
>>> v7:
>>> - Add a root-only cpuset.cpus.isolated control file for CPU isolation.
>>> - Enforce that load_balancing can only be turned off on cpusets with
>>> CPUs from the isolated list.
>>> - Update sched domain generation to allow cpusets with CPUs only
>>> from the isolated CPU list to be in separate root domains.
> Guess I'll be adding comments as soon as I stumble on something unclear
> (to me :), hope that's OK (shout if I should do it differently).
>
> The below looked unexpected to me:
>
> root@debian-kvm:/sys/fs/cgroup# cat g1/cpuset.cpus
> 2-3
> root@debian-kvm:/sys/fs/cgroup# cat g1/cpuset.mems
>
> root@debian-kvm:~# echo $$ > /sys/fs/cgroup/g1/cgroup.threads
> root@debian-kvm:/sys/fs/cgroup# cat g1/cgroup.threads
> 2312
>
> So I can add tasks to groups with no mems? Or is it this only true in my
> case with a single mem node? Or maybe it's inherited from root group
> (slightly confusing IMHO if that's the case).

No mems mean looking up the parents until we find one with non-empty
mems. The mems.effective will show you the actual memory nodes used.

-Longman