Re: [RFC/PATCH] cpuset: cpuset irq affinities

[Paul Jackson]

Peter wrote:
> The system group can overlap with anything that does need system services.

I suppose IRQs need to overlap like this, but cpusets often can't
overlap like this.

If a system has the cgroup hierarchy you draw:

  /cgroup
  /cgroup/system
  /cgroup/system/boot

  /cgroup/big_honking_app
  /cgroup/rt_domain

this must not force the cpuset hierarchy to be:

  /dev/cpuset
  /dev/cpuset/system
  /dev/cpuset/system/boot

  /dev/cpuset/big_honking_app
  /dev/cpuset/rt_domain

I guess this means IRQs cannot be added to the cpuset subsystem
of cgroups.  Rather they have to be added to some other cgroup
subsystem, perhaps a new one just for IRQs.

In perhaps the most common sort of cpuset hierarchy:

  /dev/cpuset
  /dev/cpuset/boot
  /dev/cpuset/batch_sched
  /dev/cpuset/big_honking_app
  /dev/cpuset/rt_domain

none of boot or its siblings overlap.

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