On Thu, Jul 15, 2021 at 11:04:19AM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote: > On Thu, Jul 15, 2021 at 01:13:38AM +0200, 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): > > SD_LOAD_BALANCE was only for when you wanted to stop balancing inside a > domain tree. That no longer happens (and hasn't for a *long* time). > Cpusets simply creates multiple domain trees (or the empty one if its > just one CPU). Ok. > > > $ 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... > > (note, that's the cgroup-v1 interface, the cgroup-v2 interface is > significantly different) > > I'd suggest doing: echo 1 > /debug/sched/verbose, if I do the above I > get: > > [1290784.889705] CPU0 attaching NULL sched-domain. > [1290784.894830] CPU1 attaching NULL sched-domain. Thanks! Eventually I uninstalled cgmanager and things seem to work now. I have no idea why and I'm not sure I'm willing to investigate further :o)