On Tue, Nov 20, 2018 at 07:44:10AM -0800, Tejun Heo wrote: > Hello, Peter. > > On Tue, Nov 20, 2018 at 01:46:24PM +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote: > > Why though? The Changelog doesn't give rationale for the actual changes. > > Ah yeah, sorry about that. > > > And I'm not sure I agree with either one of them. > > > > The partition is a scheduling feature; > > So is everything with cpuset.cpus prefix. They're all modifying how > scheduler handles the cpus. Fair enough I suppose. > > and I like 0/1 much better to type, so why not allow that? > > Mostly for consistency and it's generally better to keep interfaces > minimal - e.g. what if we need to add support for more key words to > the file? Would we assign incrementing integers to them? Or just not give them a numeric alias at all. But numbers are more minimal than words, so lets just get rid of them pesky word things ;-) Alternatively; we could use kstrtobool(). That accepts a metric ton of input ;-)
