On 05/06/2012 01:15 AM, Srivatsa S. Bhat wrote: >> I, personally, think we should just kill of tasks in cpuset-constrained >> environments that are nonsensical (no memory, no cpus, etc.). > > > Even I think just killing the tasks or maybe even preventing such destructive > hotplug (last cpu in a cpuset going offline) would have been way more > easier to handle and also logical.. and userspace would have been more > cautious while dealing with cpusets, from the beginning.... On one another OS, there's a "force" flag for cpu_down(). If cpu_down() is called with the "force" flag as false, the request will be rejected if any cpuset becomes empty; otherwise it will try to assign other CPUs to the empty cpusets. So the administrator could choose different behaviors. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-doc" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
