From: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
To: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Rik van Riel <riel@surriel.com>, Yi Wang <wang.yi59@zte.com.cn>,
zhong.weidong@zte.com.cn, Yi Liu <liu.yi24@zte.com.cn>,
Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] sched/core: Don't mix isolcpus and housekeeping CPUs
Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2018 16:11:24 +0530 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20181024104124.GC18466@linux.vnet.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20181024101508.GP3109@worktop.c.hoisthospitality.com>
* Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> [2018-10-24 12:15:08]:
> On Wed, Oct 24, 2018 at 03:16:46PM +0530, Srikar Dronamraju wrote:
> > * Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> [2018-10-24 09:56:36]:
> >
> > > On Wed, Oct 24, 2018 at 08:32:49AM +0530, Srikar Dronamraju wrote:
> > > It would certainly be a bit odd because the
> > > application is asking for some protection but no guarantees are given
> > > and the application is not made aware via an error code that there is a
> > > problem. Asking the application to parse dmesg hoping to find the right
> > > error message is going to be fragile.
> >
> > Its a actually a good question.
> > What should we be doing if a mix of isolcpus and housekeeping (aka
> > non-isolcpus) is given in the mask.
> >
> > Right now as you pointed, there is no easy way for the application to know
> > which are the non-isolcpus to set its affinity. cpusets effective_cpus and
> > cpus_allowed both will contain isolcpus too.
>
> The easy option is to not use isolcpus :-) It is a horrifically bad
> interface.
Agree, but thats something thats been exposed long time back.
Do we have an option to remove that? Hopefully nobody is using it.
--
Thanks and Regards
Srikar Dronamraju
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-10-24 10:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-10-24 3:02 [PATCH v2] sched/core: Don't mix isolcpus and housekeeping CPUs Srikar Dronamraju
2018-10-24 8:56 ` Mel Gorman
2018-10-24 9:46 ` Srikar Dronamraju
2018-10-24 10:15 ` Peter Zijlstra
2018-10-24 10:41 ` Srikar Dronamraju [this message]
2018-10-24 11:21 ` Mel Gorman
2018-10-24 10:31 ` Mel Gorman
2018-10-24 10:03 ` Peter Zijlstra
2018-10-24 10:30 ` Srikar Dronamraju
2018-10-25 0:07 ` Peter Zijlstra
2018-10-25 17:30 ` Srikar Dronamraju
2018-10-26 8:41 ` Peter Zijlstra
2018-10-26 9:30 ` Srikar Dronamraju
2018-10-25 18:23 ` Srikar Dronamraju
2018-10-26 8:42 ` Peter Zijlstra
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