Re: [PATCH 17/19] sched: Inherit task cookie on fork()

[Josh Don]

On Wed, May 12, 2021 at 2:05 AM Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Right, I need a Champion that actually cares about cgroups and has
> use-cases to go argue with TJ on this. I've proposed code that I think
> has sane semantics, but I'm not in a position to argue for it, given I
> think a world without cgroups is a better world :-)))

Not sure if Tejun has any thoughts on
http://lkml.kernel.org/r/CABk29NtahuW6UERvRdK5v8My_MfPsoESDKXUjGdvaQcHOJEMvg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx.

We're looking at using the prctl interface with one of our main
internal users of core scheduling. As an example, suppose we have a
management process that wants to make tasks A and B share a cookie:
- Spawn a new thread m, which then does the following, and exits.
- PR_SCHED_CORE_CREATE for just its own PID
- PR_SCHED_CORE_SHARE_TO A
- PR_SCHED_CORE_SHARE_TO B

That seems to work ok; I'll follow up if there are any pain points
that aren't easily addressed with the prctl interface.