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From: Nishanth Aravamudan <nacc@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
To: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: "Srivatsa S. Bhat" <srivatsa.bhat@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	mingo@kernel.org, pjt@google.com, paul@paulmenage.org,
	akpm@linux-foundation.org, rjw@sisk.pl, nacc@us.ibm.com,
	paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com, tglx@linutronix.de,
	seto.hidetoshi@jp.fujitsu.com, rob@landley.net, tj@kernel.org,
	mschmidt@redhat.com, berrange@redhat.com,
	nikunj@linux.vnet.ibm.com, vatsa@linux.vnet.ibm.com,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-doc@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-pm@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 0/7] CPU hotplug, cpusets: Fix issues with cpusets handling upon CPU hotplug
Date: Fri, 4 May 2012 14:30:11 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120504213010.GD3054@linux.vnet.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1336164981.6509.72.camel@twins>

On 04.05.2012 [22:56:21 +0200], Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Fri, 2012-05-04 at 13:46 -0700, Nishanth Aravamudan wrote:
> > What about other users of cpusets (what are they?)? 
> 
> cpusets came from SGI, its traditionally used to partition _large_
> machines. Things like the batch/job-schedulers that go with that type of
> setup use it.

Yeah, I recall that usage (or some description similar). Do we have any
other known users of cpusets (beyond libvirt)?

> I've no clue why libvirt uses it (or why one would use libvirt for that
> matter).

Well, it is the case that libvirt does use it, and libvirt is used
pretty widely (or so it seems to me). I don't use it (cpusets or libvirt
:) either, but it seems like we should either tell libvirt directly that
cpusets are inappropriate for their use-case (once we figure out what
exactly that is, and why they chose cpusets) or work with them to
support their use-case?

Thanks,
Nish

-- 
Nishanth Aravamudan <nacc@us.ibm.com>
IBM Linux Technology Center


  reply	other threads:[~2012-05-04 21:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-05-04 19:17 [PATCH v2 0/7] CPU hotplug, cpusets: Fix issues with cpusets handling upon CPU hotplug Srivatsa S. Bhat
2012-05-04 19:17 ` [PATCH v2 1/7] cpusets, hotplug: Implement cpuset tree traversal in a helper function Srivatsa S. Bhat
2012-05-04 19:18 ` [PATCH v2 2/7] cpusets, hotplug: Restructure functions that are invoked during hotplug Srivatsa S. Bhat
2012-05-04 19:18 ` [PATCH v2 3/7] cpusets: Introduce 'user_cpus_allowed' and rework the semantics of 'cpus_allowed' Srivatsa S. Bhat
2012-05-04 19:19 ` [PATCH v2 4/7] CPU hotplug, cpusets: Workout hotplug handling for cpusets Srivatsa S. Bhat
2012-05-04 19:19 ` [PATCH v2 5/7] Docs, cpusets: Update the cpuset documentation Srivatsa S. Bhat
2012-05-04 22:28   ` Rob Landley
2012-05-04 19:20 ` [PATCH v2 6/7] cpusets: Optimize the implementation of guarantee_online_cpus() Srivatsa S. Bhat
2012-05-04 19:20 ` [PATCH v2 7/7] cpusets: Remove out-dated comment about cpuset_track_online_cpus Srivatsa S. Bhat
2012-05-04 19:24 ` [PATCH v2 0/7] CPU hotplug, cpusets: Fix issues with cpusets handling upon CPU hotplug Peter Zijlstra
2012-05-04 19:58   ` Srivatsa S. Bhat
2012-05-04 20:14     ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-05-04 20:28       ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-05-04 20:49         ` Nishanth Aravamudan
2012-05-04 21:01           ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-05-04 21:27             ` Nishanth Aravamudan
2012-05-04 21:32               ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-05-04 21:34               ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-05-04 21:57                 ` Nishanth Aravamudan
2012-05-04 21:38               ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-05-04 20:46       ` Nishanth Aravamudan
2012-05-04 20:56         ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-05-04 21:30           ` Nishanth Aravamudan [this message]
2012-05-04 21:44             ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-05-05 15:24               ` Alan Stern
2012-05-05 17:44                 ` Paul E. McKenney
2012-05-05 18:56                   ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2012-05-08 13:07             ` Daniel P. Berrange
2012-05-05  4:39           ` Mike Galbraith
2012-05-05 17:15         ` Srivatsa S. Bhat
2012-05-07 15:26           ` Jiang Liu
2012-05-09  9:12       ` Srivatsa S. Bhat

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