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From: Benjamin Segall <bsegall@google.com>
To: Zhao Wenhui <zhaowenhui8@huawei.com>
Cc: <mingo@redhat.com>, <peterz@infradead.org>,
	<juri.lelli@redhat.com>, <vincent.guittot@linaro.org>,
	<dietmar.eggemann@arm.com>, <rostedt@goodmis.org>,
	<mgorman@suse.de>, <bristot@redhat.com>, <vschneid@redhat.com>,
	<shanpeic@linux.alibaba.com>, <changhuaixin@linux.alibaba.com>,
	<tj@kernel.org>, <dtcccc@linux.alibaba.com>,
	<linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, <zhaogongyi@huawei.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] sched/fair: limit burst to zero when cfs bandwidth is toggled off
Date: Wed, 17 Aug 2022 14:16:26 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <xm26fshu4llh.fsf@google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20220809120320.19496-1-zhaowenhui8@huawei.com> (Zhao Wenhui's message of "Tue, 9 Aug 2022 20:03:20 +0800")

Zhao Wenhui <zhaowenhui8@huawei.com> writes:

> When the quota value in CFS bandwidth is set to -1, that imples the
> cfs bandwidth is toggled off. So the burst feature is supposed to
> be disable as well.
>
> Currently, when quota is -1, burst will not be check, so that it can be
> set to almost arbitery value. Examples:
>         mkdir /sys/fs/cgroup/cpu/test
>         echo -1 > /sys/fs/cgroup/cpu/test/cpu.cfs_quota_us
>         echo 10000000000000000 > /sys/fs/cgroup/cpu/test/cpu.cfs_burst_us
>
> Moreover, after the burst modified by this way, quota can't be set
> to any value:
>         echo 100000 > cpu.cfs_quota_us
>         -bash: echo: write error: Invalid argument
>
> This patch can ensure the burst value being zero and unalterable,
> when quota is set to -1.
>
> Fixes: f4183717b370 ("sched/fair: Introduce the burstable CFS controller")
> Reported-by: Zhao Gongyi <zhaogongyi@huawei.com>
> Signed-off-by: Zhao Wenhui <zhaowenhui8@huawei.com>

Indeed, good catch.
Reviewed-by: Ben Segall <bsegall@google.com>

  parent reply	other threads:[~2022-08-17 21:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-08-09 12:03 [PATCH] sched/fair: limit burst to zero when cfs bandwidth is toggled off Zhao Wenhui
2022-08-16  5:24 ` Tianchen Ding
2022-08-17 21:16 ` Benjamin Segall [this message]
2022-08-30  3:19 ` zhaowenhui (A)
2022-09-30  8:32   ` zhaowenhui (A)
2022-11-23  8:52     ` zhaowenhui (A)

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