Re: [PATCHSET for-4.11] cgroup: implement cgroup v2 thread mode

[Mike Galbraith]

On Sun, 2017-02-12 at 13:16 -0800, Paul Turner wrote:
> 
> 
> On Thursday, February 9, 2017, Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On Thu, Feb 09, 2017 at 05:07:16AM -0800, Paul Turner wrote:
> > > The only case that this does not support vs ".threads" would be some
> > > hybrid where we co-mingle threads from different processes (with the
> > > processes belonging to the same node in the hierarchy).  I'm not aware
> > > of any usage that looks like this.
> > 
> > If I understand you right; this is a fairly common thing with RT where
> > we would stuff all the !rt threads of the various processes in a 'misc'
> > bucket.
> > 
> > Similarly, it happens that we stuff the various rt threads of processes
> > in a specific (shared) 'rt' bucket.
> > 
> > So I would certainly not like to exclude that setup.
> > 
> 
> Unless you're using rt groups I'm not sure this one really changes.  
> Whether the "misc" threads exist at the parent level or one below
> should not matter.

(with exclusive cpusets, a mask can exist at one and only one location)