Re: [lxc-devel] [RFC PATCH] cgroup, cpuset: add cpuset.remap_cpus

[Tejun Heo]

Hello,

On Wed, Aug 30, 2017 at 03:27:55PM +0200, Christian Brauner wrote:
> The following patch was sent a while back by Wolfgang Bumiller to remap cpusets
> for a whole subtree in a cgroup v1 cpuset hierarchy. The fact that currently
> this is not possible in a non-racy why is a pretty big limitation. This is
> especially true for nested containers. Where the nested containers often create
> additional subcgroups in the cpuset controller at will. The fact that you can't
> *easily* and in a non-racy way tighten the restriction on them after having
> created the parent container's cpuset cgroup seems really troubling.

There was a recent patch to enable v2 behavior on v1, which feels like
the better approach at this point.  I'm not sure about adding a whole
new interface for this.

Thanks.

-- 
tejun