Re: [PATCH 2/2] cpusets,isolcpus: add file to show isolated cpus in cpuset

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On 02/24/2015 09:15 PM, David Rientjes wrote:
> On Mon, 23 Feb 2015, riel@xxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> 
>> From: Rik van Riel <riel@xxxxxxxxxx>
>>
>> The previous patch makes it so the code skips over isolcpus when
>> building scheduler load balancing domains. This makes it hard to
>> see for a user which of the CPUs in a cpuset are participating in
>> load balancing, and which ones are isolated cpus.
>>
>> Add a cpuset.isolcpus file with info on which cpus in a cpuset are
>> isolated CPUs.
>>
>> This file is read-only for now. In the future we could extend things
>> so isolcpus can be changed at run time, for the root (system wide)
>> cpuset only.
>>
>> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> Cc: Clark Williams <williams@xxxxxxxxxx>
>> Cc: Li Zefan <lizefan@xxxxxxxxxx>
>> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx>
>> Cc: Luiz Capitulino <lcapitulino@xxxxxxxxxx>
>> Cc: cgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> Signed-off-by: Rik van Riel <riel@xxxxxxxxxx>
>> ---
>>  kernel/cpuset.c | 27 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>>  1 file changed, 27 insertions(+)
>>
>> diff --git a/kernel/cpuset.c b/kernel/cpuset.c
>> index 1ad63fa37cb4..19ad5d3377f8 100644
>> --- a/kernel/cpuset.c
>> +++ b/kernel/cpuset.c
>> @@ -1563,6 +1563,7 @@ typedef enum {
>>  	FILE_MEMORY_PRESSURE,
>>  	FILE_SPREAD_PAGE,
>>  	FILE_SPREAD_SLAB,
>> +	FILE_ISOLCPUS,
>>  } cpuset_filetype_t;
>>  
>>  static int cpuset_write_u64(struct cgroup_subsys_state *css, struct cftype *cft,
>> @@ -1704,6 +1705,23 @@ static ssize_t cpuset_write_resmask(struct kernfs_open_file *of,
>>  	return retval ?: nbytes;
>>  }
>>  
>> +static size_t cpuset_sprintf_isolcpus(char *s, ssize_t pos, struct cpuset *cs)
>> +{
>> +	cpumask_var_t my_isolated_cpus;
>> +	ssize_t count;
>> +	
> 
> Whitespace.
> 
>> +	if (!alloc_cpumask_var(&my_isolated_cpus, GFP_KERNEL))
>> +		return 0;
>> +
>> +	cpumask_and(my_isolated_cpus, cs->cpus_allowed, cpu_isolated_map);
>> +
>> +	count = cpulist_scnprintf(s, pos, my_isolated_cpus);
>> +
>> +	free_cpumask_var(my_isolated_cpus);
>> +
>> +	return count;
>> +}
>> +
>>  /*
>>   * These ascii lists should be read in a single call, by using a user
>>   * buffer large enough to hold the entire map.  If read in smaller
>> @@ -1738,6 +1756,9 @@ static int cpuset_common_seq_show(struct seq_file *sf, void *v)
>>  	case FILE_EFFECTIVE_MEMLIST:
>>  		s += nodelist_scnprintf(s, count, cs->effective_mems);
>>  		break;
>> +	case FILE_ISOLCPUS:
>> +		s += cpuset_sprintf_isolcpus(s, count, cs);
>> +		break;
> 
> This patch looks fine, and I think cpuset.effective_cpus and 
> cpuset.isolcpus can be used well together, but will need updating now that 
> commit e8e6d97c9b ("cpuset: use %*pb[l] to print bitmaps including 
> cpumasks and nodemasks") has been merged which reworks this function.

I will take a look at that changeset. It was not in the
tip tree I worked against.

Expect a v2 :)

> It's a little unfortunate, though, that the user sees Cpus_allowed, 
> cpuset.cpus, and cpuset.effective_cpus that include isolcpus and then have 
> to check another cpulist for the isolcpus to see their sched domain, 
> though.

Agreed, but all the alternatives I could think of would break the
userspace API, leaving this as the best way to go.

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