Re: [PATCH] sched: Relax a restriction in sched_rt_can_attach()

From: Peter Zijlstra
Date: Tue May 05 2015 - 15:01:19 EST


On Tue, May 05, 2015 at 12:31:12PM -0400, Tejun Heo wrote:
>
> What I don't want to happen is controllers failing migrations
> willy-nilly for random reasons leaving users baffled, which we've
> actually been doing unfortunately. Maybe we need to deal with this
> fixed resource arbitration as a separate class and allow them to fail
> migration w/ -EBUSY.

Ah, _that_ was the problem.

Which is something created by this co-mounting of controllers.

You could of course store the ss-id of the failing operation in
task_struct and have a file reporting the name of the ss-id.

That way, there is a simple way to find out which controller failed the
migrate.

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