Re: [PATCH v4 4/6] cgroup/cpuset: Allow non-top parent partition root to distribute out all CPUs

[Waiman Long <llong@redhat.com>]

On 8/11/21 2:13 PM, Tejun Heo wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 10, 2021 at 11:06:05PM -0400, Waiman Long wrote:
>> Currently, a parent partition root cannot distribute all its CPUs to
>> child partition roots with no CPUs left. However in some use cases,
>> a management application may want to create a parent partition root as
>> a management unit with no task associated with it and has all its CPUs
>> distributed to various child partition roots dynamically according to
>> their needs. Leaving a cpu in the parent partition root in such a case is
>> now a waste.
>>
>> To accommodate such use cases, a parent partition root can now have
>> all its CPUs distributed to its child partition roots as long as:
>>   1) it is not the top cpuset; and
>>   2) there is no task directly associated with the parent.
>>
>> Once an empty parent partition root is formed, no new task can be moved
>> into it.
> The above are already enforced by cgroup2 core, right? No intermediate
> cgroup with controllers enabled can have processes. From controllers' POV,
> only leaves can have processes.
>
I don't think that is true. A task can reside anywhere in the cgroup 
hierarchy. I have encountered no problem moving tasks around.

Cheers,
Longman