Re: [PATCH] cgroup/cpuset: fix circular locking dependency

From: Tejun Heo
Date: Mon Dec 11 2017 - 10:21:13 EST


Hello, Peter.

On Tue, Dec 05, 2017 at 12:01:17AM +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> > AFAICS, this should remove the circular dependency you originally
> > reported. I'll revert the two cpuset commits for now.
>
> So I liked his patches in that we would be able to go back to
> synchronous sched_domain building.

Ah, yeah, that's a separate issue but didn't we intentionally make
that asynchronous? IIRC, cpuset migration can take a really long time
when the memory migration is turned on and doing that synchronously
could mess up the system.

Thanks.

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tejun