Re: [PATCH v5 1/2] cpuset: Enable cpuset controller in default hierarchy

From: Waiman Long
Date: Tue Mar 20 2018 - 18:01:39 EST


On 03/20/2018 05:14 PM, Tejun Heo wrote:
> Hello,
>
> On Tue, Mar 20, 2018 at 04:53:37PM -0400, Waiman Long wrote:
>> ASAIK for v2, when cpuset.cpus is empty, cpuset.effective_cpus will show
>> all the cpus available from the parent. It is a different behavior from
>> v1. So do we still need a cpuset.cpus_available?
> Heh, you're right. Let's forget about available and do
> cpuset.cpus.effective. The primary reason for suggesting that was
> because of the similarity with cgroup.controllers and
> cgroup.subtree_control; however, they're that way because
> subtree_control is delegatable. For a normal resource knob like
> cpuset.cpus, the knob is owned by the parent and what's interesting to
> the parent is its effective set that it's distributing from.

OK, will change the names as suggested.

-Longman