Re: [PATCH v10 2/9] cpuset: Add new v2 cpuset.sched.domain_root flag

From: Peter Zijlstra
Date: Thu Jun 21 2018 - 05:27:48 EST


On Thu, Jun 21, 2018 at 03:58:06PM +0800, Waiman Long wrote:
> On 06/20/2018 10:27 PM, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> > On Mon, Jun 18, 2018 at 12:14:01PM +0800, Waiman Long wrote:
> >> + cpuset.sched.domain_root
> > Why are we calling this a domain_root and not a partition?
>
> A partition can consist of several cgroups in a tree structure. That
> flag should only be set at the root of a partition. I will change the
> name to partition_root if you think this name is acceptable.

The flag indicates the 'effective_cpus' things of the current group is a
partition. The fact that it can have sub-partitions doesn't really
matter does it.

Just call it 'partition', leave out the whole root stuff, all of cgroup
is hierarchical and you can have sub-groups we don't go around calling
everything a root.