Re: [PATCH/RFC] Have sane default values for cpusets

[Paul Menage <menage@google.com>]

On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 12:10 PM, Dhaval Giani <dhaval.giani@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 9:01 PM, Paul Menage <menage@google.com> wrote:
>> What about the case where some subset of the parent's mems/cpus are
>> given to a child with the exclusive flag set?
>>
>
> As I mentioned in the TODO, it is still to be handled.

Oops, sorry, just read the patch :-)

> But it should
> simply exclude those mems/cpus which are exclusive. It was a bit more
> involved than the effort I wanted to put in before gauging the
> reactions.

I think the idea is reasonable - the only way that I could see it
breaking someone would be code that currently does something like:

mkdir A
mkdir B
echo 1 > A/mem_exclusive
echo 1 > B/mem_exclusive
echo $mems_for_a > A/mems
echo $mems_for_b > B/mems

The attempts to set the mem_exclusive flags would fail, since A and B
would both have all of the parent's mems.

Paul