Hello, On Tue, Jun 06, 2023 at 04:11:02PM -0400, Waiman Long wrote: ... > The current CPU exclusive behavior is limited to sibling cgroups only. > Because of the hierarchical nature of cpu distribution, the set of exclusive > CPUs have to appear in all its ancestors. When partition is enabled, we do a > sibling exclusivity test at that point to verify that it is exclusive. It > looks like you want to do an exclusivity test even when the partition isn't > active. I can certainly do that when the file is being updated. However, it > will fail the write if the exclusivity test fails just like the v1 > cpuset.cpus.exclusive flag if you are OK with that. Yeah, doesn't look like there's a way around it if we want to make .exclusive a feature which is useful on its own. > > Instead, it can be sth like "if the parent is a > > partition root, cpuset implicitly tries to set all CPUs in its cpus file in > > its cpus.exclusive file" so that user-visible behavior stays unchanged > > depending on past history. > > If parent is a partition root, auto reservation will be done and > cpus.exclusive will be set automatically just like before. So existing > applications using partition will not be affected. Sounds great. Thanks. -- tejun