Re: [Lse-tech] [PATCH] cpusets - big numa cpu and memory placement

[Martin J. Bligh]

> There's no relation to PAGG but I think cpusets and CKRM should be
> made to come together. One of CKRM's user interfaces is a filesystem
> with the file-tree representing the class hierarchy. It's the same for
> cpusets. 

OK, that makes sense ...

> I'd vote for cpusets going in soon. CKRM could be extended by
> a cpusets controller which should be pretty trivial when using the
> infrastructure of this patch. It simply needs to create classes
> (cpusets) and attach processes to them. The enforcement of resources
> happens automatically. When CKRM is mature to enter the kernel, one
> could drop /dev/cpusets in favor of the CKRM way of doing it.

But I think that's dangerous. It's very hard to get rid of existing user
interfaces ... I'd much rather we sorted out what we're doing BEFORE
putting either in the kernel.

M.

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