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Commit e2d59900 authored by Waiman Long's avatar Waiman Long Committed by Tejun Heo
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cgroup/cpuset: Allow no-task partition to have empty cpuset.cpus.effective



Currently, a partition root cannot have empty "cpuset.cpus.effective".
As a result, a parent partition root cannot distribute out all its
CPUs to child partitions with no CPUs left. However in most cases,
there shouldn't be any tasks associated with intermediate nodes of the
default hierarchy. So the current rule is too restrictive and can waste
valuable CPU resource.

To address this issue, we are now allowing a partition to have empty
"cpuset.cpus.effective" as long as it has no task. Since cpuset is
threaded, no-internal-process rule does not apply. So it is possible
to have tasks in a partition root with child sub-partitions even though
that should be uncommon.

A parent partition with no task can now have all its CPUs distributed out
to its child partitions. The top cpuset always have some house-keeping
tasks running and so its list of effective cpu can't be empty.

Once a partition with empty "cpuset.cpus.effective" is formed, no
new task can be moved into it until "cpuset.cpus.effective" becomes
non-empty.

Signed-off-by: default avatarWaiman Long <longman@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarTejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
parent 18065ebe
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