Re: [PATCH 3/3] sched: Implement interface for cgroup unified hierarchy

[Tejun Heo]

Hello,

On Thu, Sep 17, 2015 at 05:10:49PM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> Subject: sched: Refuse to unplug a CPU if this will violate user task affinity
> 
> Its bad policy to allow unplugging a CPU for which a user set explicit
> affinity, either strictly on this CPU or in case this was the last
> online CPU in its mask.
> 
> Either would end up forcing the thread on a random other CPU, violating
> the sys_sched_setaffinity() constraint.

Shouldn't this at least handle suspend differently?  Otherwise any
userland task would be able to block suspend.

> Disallow this by default; root might not be aware of all user
> affinities, but can negotiate and change affinities for all tasks.
>
> Provide a sysctl to go back to the old behaviour.

I don't think a sysctl is a good way to control this as that breaks
the invariant - all tasks always have some cpus online in its affinity
mask - which otherwise can be guaranteed.

If we wanna go this way, let's plesae start the discussion in a
separate thread with detailed explanation on implications of the
change.

Thanks.

-- 
tejun
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