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

[Peter Zijlstra]

On Sat, Sep 12, 2015 at 10:40:07AM -0400, Tejun Heo wrote:
> So, one of the problems is that the kernel can't have tasks w/o
> runnable CPUs, so we have to some workaround when, for whatever
> reason, a task ends up with no CPU that it can run on.

No, just refuse that configuration.

> You say cpuset isn't a layering thing but that simply isn't true.
> It's a cgroup-scope CPU mask.  It layers atop task affinities
> restricting what they can be configured to, limiting the effective
> cpumask to the intersection of actually existing CPUs and overriding
> individual affinity setting when the intersection doesn't exist.

No, just fail.

> The kernel does not update all CPU affinity masks when a CPU goes down
> or comes up.

I'd be happy to fail a CPU down for user tasks where this is the last
runnable CPU of.
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