Martin wrote:
> The way cpusets uses the current cpus_allowed mechanism is, to me, the most
> worrying thing about it. Frankly, the cpus_allowed thing is kind of tacked
> onto the existing scheduler, and not at all integrated into it, and doesn't
> work well if you use it heavily (eg bind all the processes to a few CPUs,
> and watch the rest of the system kill itself).
True. One detail of what you say I'm unclear on -- how will the rest of
the system kill itself? Why wouldn't the unemployed CPUs just idle
around, waiting for something to do?
As I recall, Ingo added task->cpus_allowed for the Tux in-kernel web
server a few years back, and I piggy backed the cpuset stuff on that, to
keep my patch size small.
Likely your same concerns apply to the task->mems_allowed field that
I added, in the same fashion, in my cpuset patch of recent.
We need a mechanism that the cpuset apparatus respects that maps each
CPU to a sched_domain, exactly one sched_domain for any given CPU at any
point in time, regardless of which task it is considering running at the
moment. Somewhat like dual-channeled disks, having more than one
sched_domain apply at the same time to a given CPU leads to confusions
best avoided unless desparately needed. Unlike dual-channeled disks, I
don't see the desparate need here for multi-channel sched_domains ;).
And of course, for the vast majority of normal systems in the world
not configured with cpusets, this has to collapse back to something
sensible "just like it is now."
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