Hello.
The previous thread arrived incomplete to me, so I respond to the last message only. Point me to a message URL if it was covered.
On Fri, Apr 14, 2023 at 03:06:27PM -0400, Waiman Long longman@redhat.com wrote:
Below is a draft of the new cpuset.cpus.reserve cgroupfs file:
cpuset.cpus.reserve A read-write multiple values file which exists on all cpuset-enabled cgroups.
It lists the reserved CPUs to be used for the creation of child partitions. See the section on "cpuset.cpus.partition" below for more information on cpuset partition. These reserved CPUs should be a subset of "cpuset.cpus" and will be mutually exclusive of "cpuset.cpus.effective" when used since these reserved CPUs cannot be used by tasks in the current cgroup.
There are two modes for partition CPUs reservation - auto or manual. The system starts up in auto mode where "cpuset.cpus.reserve" will be set automatically when valid child partitions are created and users don't need to touch the file at all. This mode has the limitation that the parent of a partition must be a partition root itself. So child partition has to be created one-by-one from the cgroup root down.
To enable the creation of a partition down in the hierarchy without the intermediate cgroups to be partition roots,
Why would be this needed? Owning a CPU (a resource) must logically be passed all the way from root to the target cgroup, i.e. this is expressed by valid partitioning down to given level.
onehas to turn on the manual reservation mode by writing directly to "cpuset.cpus.reserve" with a value different from its current value. By distributing the reserve CPUs down the cgroup hierarchy to the parent of the target cgroup, this target cgroup can be switched to become a partition root if its "cpuset.cpus" is a subset of the set of valid reserve CPUs in its parent.
level n `- level n+1 cpuset.cpus // these are actually configured by "owner" of level n cpuset.cpus.partition // similrly here, level n decides if child is a partition
I.e. what would be level n/cpuset.cpus.reserve good for when it can directly control level n+1/cpuset.cpus?
Thanks, Michal