Re: [PATCH v11 3/8] cgroup/cpuset: Allow no-task partition to have empty cpuset.cpus.effective

From: Waiman Long
Date: Sun Jun 12 2022 - 23:04:28 EST



On 6/12/22 22:55, Tejun Heo wrote:
On Sun, Jun 12, 2022 at 10:53:53PM -0400, Waiman Long wrote:
Without this patch, cpus.effective will never be empty. It just falls back
to its parent if it becomes empty. Now with an empty cpus.effective, I am
Yeah, that part is fine.

afraid that if a task is somehow moved to such a cpuset, something bad may
happen. So I add this check as a safeguard.
But how would that happen? A lot of other things would break too if that
were to happen.

I will perform further check to see if this check is necessary.

Thanks,
Longman