Re: [RFC PATCH 4/4] cpuset: Support RCU-NOCB toggle on v2 root partitions

[Phil Auld <pauld@redhat.com>]

Hi,

On Thu, May 26, 2022 at 10:45:00PM -1000 Tejun Heo wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> On Fri, May 27, 2022 at 10:30:18AM +0200, Juri Lelli wrote:
> > FWIW, I was under the impression that this would nicely fit along the
> > side of other feaures towards implenting dynamic isolation of CPUs (say
> > https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20220510153413.400020-1-longman@redhat.com/
> > for example). Wouldn't be awkward to have to poke different places to
> > achieve isolation at runtime?
> 
> So, it were just being part of the isolated domain thing, it would make
> sense, but as a separate flag which isn't hierarchical, it's weird to put it
> there.

The way I see it is more that the "isolated domain thing" is one part of
this whole dynamic isolation thing and is just one flag among many (most
still on the drawing board, but planned). It may be that Waiman's "isolated" 
should be renamed "no_load_balance" or something.

Part of this is making cpu isolation more granular. 

> 
> > Also, I wonder if a proc/sys interface might be problematic for certain
> > middleware that is substantially based on using cgroups. I'll try to ask
> > around. :)
> 
> There is a downside to making a feature a part of cpuset in that it makes
> cgroup usage mandatory. This is fine for something which benefits from
> hierarchical organization but it is weird to require building cgroup
> hierarchy for straight-forward system-wide features.
> 

That ship may have sailed when SD_LOAD_BALANCE was removed, which is part
of what Waiman's feature addresses.  That is, now in order to get control
over the system-wide feature of which CPUs get scheduler load balanced you 
need to use cpusets. 


My 3 cents anyway  (inflation ;)


Cheers,
Phil


> Thanks.
> 
> -- 
> tejun
> 

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