Hello, On Thu, Jul 19, 2018 at 10:04:54AM -0400, Waiman Long wrote: > > Why would a container not be allowed to create partitions for its > > various RT workloads? > > As far as I understand, Tejun has some concern about the way that > partitioning works is inconsistent with how other resources are being > managed by cgroup v2 controllers. I adds an incremental patch to > temporarily disable the creation of partition below the first level > children to buy us time so that we can reach a compromise later on what > to do. We can always add features, but taking away features after they > are made available will be hard. > > I am fine either way. It is up to you and Tejun to figure out what > should be made available to the users. So, the main thing is that putting a cpu into a partition locks away the cpu from its ancestors. That's a system level operation which isn't delegatable. If we want to allow partitioning in subtrees, the parent still be able to take away partitioned cpus too even if that means ignoring descendants' configurations, which btw is exactly what cpuset does for non-partition configs. I don't think this would be technically too challenging to implement, but unless there are immediate use cases for it, we can start simpler & restricted. Thanks. -- tejun -- 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
