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From: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>
To: nsaenzju@redhat.com, Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Nitesh Lal <nilal@redhat.com>,
	Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>,
	Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@redhat.com>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
	Alex Belits <abelits@marvell.com>, Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Subject: Re: [patch 1/4] add basic task isolation prctl interface
Date: Tue, 27 Jul 2021 15:09:30 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20210727130930.GB283787@lothringen> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <a020a45ddea10956938f59bd235b88fe873d0e98.camel@redhat.com>

On Tue, Jul 27, 2021 at 02:38:15PM +0200, nsaenzju@redhat.com wrote:
> Hi Marcelo,
> 
> On Tue, 2021-07-27 at 08:00 -0300, Marcelo Tosatti wrote:
> OK, sorry if I'm being thick, but what is the benefit of having a distincnt
> PR_ISOL_MODE instead expressing everything as PR_ISOL_FEATURES.
> 
>   PR_ISOL_MODE_NONE == Empty PR_ISOL_FEATURES bitmap
> 
>   PR_ISOL_MODE_NORMAL == Bitmap of commonly used PR_ISOL_FEATURES
>   			      (we could introduce a define)
> 
>   PR_ISOL_MODE_NORMAL+PR_ISOL_VSYSCALLS == Custom bitmap
> 
> Other than that, my rationale is that if you extend PR_ISOL_MODE_NORMAL's
> behaviour as new features are merged, wouldn't you be potentially breaking
> userspace (i.e. older applications might not like the new default)?

I agree with Nicolas, and that was Thomas request too.
Let's leave policy implementation to userspace and take
only the individual isolation features to the kernel.

CPU/Task isolation is a relatively young feature and many users don't
communicate much about their needs. We don't know exactly how finegrained
the ABI will need to be so let's not make too many high level assumptions.

It's easy for userspace to set all isolation bits by itself.

Besides, those bits will be implemented one by one over time, this
means that a prctl() bit saying "isolate everything" will have a different
behaviour as those features get integrated. And we really want well defined
behaviours.

Thanks.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2021-07-27 13:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-07-27 10:38 [patch 0/4] prctl task isolation interface and vmstat sync Marcelo Tosatti
2021-07-27 10:38 ` [patch 1/4] add basic task isolation prctl interface Marcelo Tosatti
2021-07-27 10:48   ` nsaenzju
2021-07-27 11:00     ` Marcelo Tosatti
2021-07-27 12:38       ` nsaenzju
2021-07-27 13:06         ` Marcelo Tosatti
2021-07-27 13:08           ` Marcelo Tosatti
2021-07-27 13:09         ` Frederic Weisbecker [this message]
2021-07-27 14:52           ` Marcelo Tosatti
2021-07-27 23:45             ` Frederic Weisbecker
2021-07-28  9:37               ` Marcelo Tosatti
2021-07-28 11:45                 ` Frederic Weisbecker
2021-07-28 13:21                   ` Marcelo Tosatti
2021-07-28 21:22                     ` Frederic Weisbecker
2021-07-28 11:55                 ` nsaenzju
2021-07-28 13:16                   ` Marcelo Tosatti
     [not found]                     ` <CAFki+LkQwoqVTKmgnwLQQM8ua-ixbLp8i+jUT6xF15k6X=89mw@mail.gmail.com>
2021-07-28 16:21                       ` Marcelo Tosatti
2021-07-28 17:08                     ` nsaenzju
     [not found]                 ` <CAFki+LmHeXmSFze8YEHFNbYA5hLEtnZyk37Yjf-eyOuKa8Os4w@mail.gmail.com>
2021-07-28 16:17                   ` Marcelo Tosatti
2021-07-27 10:38 ` [patch 2/4] task isolation: sync vmstats on return to userspace Marcelo Tosatti
2021-07-27 10:38 ` [patch 3/4] mm: vmstat: move need_update Marcelo Tosatti
2021-07-27 10:38 ` [patch 4/4] mm: vmstat_refresh: avoid queueing work item if cpu stats are clean Marcelo Tosatti
2021-07-30 20:18 [patch 0/4] extensible prctl task isolation interface and vmstat sync (v2) Marcelo Tosatti
2021-07-30 20:18 ` [patch 1/4] add basic task isolation prctl interface Marcelo Tosatti
     [not found]   ` <CAFki+Lnf0cs62Se0aPubzYxP9wh7xjMXn7RXEPvrmtBdYBrsow@mail.gmail.com>
2021-07-31  0:49     ` Marcelo Tosatti
2021-07-31  7:47   ` kernel test robot
     [not found]   ` <CAFki+LkQVQOe+5aNEKWDvLdnjWjxzKWOiqOvBZzeuPWX+G=XgA@mail.gmail.com>
2021-08-02 14:16     ` Marcelo Tosatti

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