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

[Tejun Heo]

On Thu, Aug 31, 2017 at 11:41:47AM +0200, Christian Brauner wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 30, 2017 at 05:41:31PM -0700, Tejun Heo wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> Cool. If it can be done easier and less invasive I'm all for it. Did the patch
> already make it into your branch and - only if you happen to have the reference
> flying around - could you point me to it.

https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/cgroup.git/commit/?h=for-4.14&id=b8d1b8ee93df8ffbabbeadd65d39853cfad6d698

Thanks.

-- 
tejun