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SubjectRe: [RFC PATCH 6/6] cpuset: Add cpuset.isolation_mask file
On Thu, Jul 15, 2021 at 12:44:08AM +0100, Valentin Schneider wrote:
> On 15/07/21 01:13, Frederic Weisbecker wrote:
> > On Wed, Jul 14, 2021 at 06:52:43PM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> >>
> >> cpusets already has means to create paritions; why are you creating
> >> something else?
> >
> > I was about to answer that the semantics of isolcpus, which reference
> > a NULL domain, are different from SD_LOAD_BALANCE implied by
> > cpuset.sched_load_balance. But then I realize that SD_LOAD_BALANCE has
> > been removed.
> >
> > How cpuset.sched_load_balance is implemented then? Commit
> > e669ac8ab952df2f07dee1e1efbf40647d6de332 ("sched: Remove checks against
> > SD_LOAD_BALANCE") advertize that setting cpuset.sched_load_balance to 0
> > ends up creating NULL domain but that's not what I get. For example if I
> > mount a single cpuset root (no other cpuset mountpoints):
> >
> > $ mount -t cgroup none ./cpuset -o cpuset
> > $ cd cpuset
> > $ cat cpuset.cpus
> > 0-7
> > $ cat cpuset.sched_load_balance
> > 1
> > $ echo 0 > cpuset.sched_load_balance
> > $ ls /sys/kernel/debug/domains/cpu1/
> > domain0 domain1
> >
> > I still get the domains on all CPUs...
>
> Huh. That's on v5.14-rc1 with an automounted cpuset:
>
> $ cat /sys/fs/cgroup/cpuset/cpuset.cpus
> 0-5
> $ cat /sys/fs/cgroup/cpuset/cpuset.sched_load_balance
> 1
>
> $ ls /sys/kernel/debug/sched/domains/cpu*
> /sys/kernel/debug/sched/domains/cpu0:
> domain0 domain1
>
> /sys/kernel/debug/sched/domains/cpu1:
> domain0 domain1
>
> /sys/kernel/debug/sched/domains/cpu2:
> domain0 domain1
>
> /sys/kernel/debug/sched/domains/cpu3:
> domain0 domain1
>
> /sys/kernel/debug/sched/domains/cpu4:
> domain0 domain1
>
> /sys/kernel/debug/sched/domains/cpu5:
> domain0 domain1
>
> $ echo 0 > /sys/fs/cgroup/cpuset/cpuset.sched_load_balance
> $ ls /sys/kernel/debug/sched/domains/cpu*
> /sys/kernel/debug/sched/domains/cpu0:
>
> /sys/kernel/debug/sched/domains/cpu1:
>
> /sys/kernel/debug/sched/domains/cpu2:
>
> /sys/kernel/debug/sched/domains/cpu3:
>
> /sys/kernel/debug/sched/domains/cpu4:
>
> /sys/kernel/debug/sched/domains/cpu5:
>
>
> I also checked that you can keep cpuset.sched_load_balance=0 at the root
> and create exclusive child cpusets with different values of
> sched_load_balance, giving you some CPUs attached to the NULL domain and
> some others with a sched_domain hierarchy that stays within the cpuset span.

Ok I must have done something wrong somewhere, I'll check further tomorrow.

Thanks!

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