Re: exclusive cpusets broken with cpu hotplug

From: Paul Jackson
Date: Thu Oct 19 2006 - 04:12:37 EST


> Paul Jackson wrote:
> > Nick wrote:
> >
> >>(we simply shouldn't allow
> >>situations where we put a partition in the middle of a cpuset).
> >
> >
> > Could you explain to me what you mean by "put a partition in the
> > middle of a cpuset?"
> >
>
> Your example, if a partition is created for each of the sub cpusets.

The thing "we simply shouldn't allow", then, is the bread and
butter of cpusets.

I am convinced that we are trying to pound nails with toothpicks.

The cpu_exclusive flag was the wrong flag to overload to define
sched domains.

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