Re: [PATCH 1/2] cgroup/cpuset: Keep current cpus list if cpus affinity was explicitly set

[Tejun Heo]

Hello,

On Thu, Jul 28, 2022 at 02:57:28PM -0400, Waiman Long wrote:
> There can be a counter argument that if a user found out that there is not
> enough cpus in a cpuset to meet its performance target, one can always
> increase the number of cpus in the cpuset. Generalizing this behavior to all
> the tasks irrespective if they have explicitly set cpus affinity before will
> disallow this use case.

This is nasty. The real solution here is separating out what user requested
and the mask that cpuset (or cpu hotplug) needs to apply on top. ie.
remember what the user requested in a separate cpumask and compute the
intersection into p->cpus_maks whenever something changes and apply
fallbacks on that final mask. Multiple parties updating the same variable is
never gonna lead to anything consistent and we're patching up for whatever
the immediate use case seems to need at the moment. That said, I'm not
necessarily against patching it up but if you're interested in delving into
it deeper, that'd be great.

Thanks.

-- 
tejun