From: Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com>
To: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>, Zefan Li <lizefan.x@bytedance.com>,
Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>,
Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>, Shuah Khan <shuah@kernel.org>
Cc: cgroups@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, linux-kselftest@vger.kernel.org,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Roman Gushchin <guro@fb.com>, Phil Auld <pauld@redhat.com>,
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@redhat.com>,
Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com>
Subject: [PATCH 4/5] cgroup/cpuset: Update description of cpuset.cpus.partition in cgroup-v2.rst
Date: Thu, 3 Jun 2021 17:24:15 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20210603212416.25934-5-longman@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210603212416.25934-1-longman@redhat.com>
Update Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v2.rst on the new "root-nolb"
cpuset partition type as well as the ability to create non-top cpuset
partition with no cpu allocated to it.
Signed-off-by: Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com>
---
Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v2.rst | 19 ++++++++++++++-----
1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v2.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v2.rst
index b1e81aa8598a..36a923cabeb0 100644
--- a/Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v2.rst
+++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v2.rst
@@ -2010,8 +2010,9 @@ Cpuset Interface Files
It accepts only the following input values when written to.
======== ================================
- "root" a partition root
- "member" a non-root member of a partition
+ "member" Non-root member of a partition
+ "root" Partition root
+ "root-nolb" Partition root with no load balancing
======== ================================
When set to be a partition root, the current cgroup is the
@@ -2020,6 +2021,10 @@ Cpuset Interface Files
partition roots themselves and their descendants. The root
cgroup is always a partition root.
+ With "root-nolb", the CPUs in that partition root will be in an
+ isolated state with no load balancing by the scheduler. Tasks in
+ such a partition must be explicitly bind to each individual CPU.
+
There are constraints on where a partition root can be set.
It can only be set in a cgroup if all the following conditions
are true.
@@ -2038,9 +2043,12 @@ Cpuset Interface Files
file cannot be reverted back to "member" if there are any child
cgroups with cpuset enabled.
- A parent partition cannot distribute all its CPUs to its
- child partitions. There must be at least one cpu left in the
- parent partition.
+ A parent partition may distribute all its CPUs to its child
+ partitions as long as it is not the root cgroup and there is no
+ task directly associated with that parent partition. Otherwise,
+ there must be at least one cpu left in the parent partition.
+ A new task cannot be moved to a partition root with no effective
+ cpu.
Once becoming a partition root, changes to "cpuset.cpus" is
generally allowed as long as the first condition above is true,
@@ -2056,6 +2064,7 @@ Cpuset Interface Files
============== ==============================
"member" Non-root member of a partition
"root" Partition root
+ "root-nolb" Partition root with no load balancing
"root invalid" Invalid partition root
============== ==============================
--
2.18.1
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-06-03 21:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-06-03 21:24 [PATCH 0/5] cgroup/cpuset: Enable cpuset partition with no load balancing Waiman Long
2021-06-03 21:24 ` [PATCH 1/5] cgroup/cpuset: Don't call validate_change() for some flag changes Waiman Long
2021-06-16 20:39 ` Tejun Heo
2021-06-17 2:53 ` Waiman Long
2021-06-03 21:24 ` [PATCH 2/5] cgroup/cpuset: Add new cpus.partition type with no load balancing Waiman Long
2021-06-10 18:50 ` Peter Zijlstra
2021-06-10 19:16 ` Waiman Long
2021-06-10 19:39 ` Peter Zijlstra
2021-06-10 19:00 ` Peter Zijlstra
2021-06-10 19:21 ` Waiman Long
2021-06-16 20:47 ` Tejun Heo
2021-06-17 2:57 ` Waiman Long
2021-06-03 21:24 ` [PATCH 3/5] cgroup/cpuset: Allow non-top parent partition root to distribute out all CPUs Waiman Long
2021-06-16 20:57 ` Tejun Heo
2021-06-17 20:45 ` Waiman Long
2021-06-03 21:24 ` Waiman Long [this message]
2021-06-03 21:24 ` [PATCH 5/5] kselftest/cgroup: Add cpuset v2 partition root state test Waiman Long
2021-06-10 14:19 ` [PATCH 0/5] cgroup/cpuset: Enable cpuset partition with no load balancing Phil Auld
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