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SubjectRe: [PATCH] sched: Relax a restriction in sched_rt_can_attach()
Hello, Peter.

On Tue, May 05, 2015 at 09:00:57PM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Tue, May 05, 2015 at 12:31:12PM -0400, Tejun Heo wrote:
> > What I don't want to happen is controllers failing migrations
> > willy-nilly for random reasons leaving users baffled, which we've
> > actually been doing unfortunately. Maybe we need to deal with this
> > fixed resource arbitration as a separate class and allow them to fail
> > migration w/ -EBUSY.
>
> Ah, _that_ was the problem.
>
> Which is something created by this co-mounting of controllers.

Yeah, partly, but also that it's an extra failure mode which isn't
necessary for most controllers.

> You could of course store the ss-id of the failing operation in
> task_struct and have a file reporting the name of the ss-id.
>
> That way, there is a simple way to find out which controller failed the
> migrate.

Given that the resources which can fail are very limited, I don't
think we need that right now as long as we limit and document the
possible failure cases clearly. Hopefully, this won't devolve into
collection of arbitrary failures.

Thanks.

--
tejun


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