v4: - Rebased to the for-5.15 branch of cgroup git tree and dropped the first 3 patches of v3 series which have been merged. - Beside prohibiting violation of cpu exclusivity rule, allow arbitrary changes to cpuset.cpus of a partition root and force the partition root to become invalid in case any of the partition root constraints are violated. The documentation file and self test are modified accordingly. v3: - Add two new patches (patches 2 & 3) to fix bugs found during the testing process. - Add a new patch to enable inotify event notification when partition become invalid. - Add a test to test event notification when partition become invalid. v2: - Drop v1 patch 1. - Break out some cosmetic changes into a separate patch (patch #1). - Add a new patch to clarify the transition to invalid partition root is mainly caused by hotplug events. - Enhance the partition root state test including CPU online/offline behavior and fix issues found by the test. This patchset makes four enhancements to the cpuset v2 code. Patch 1: Enable event notification on "cpuset.cpus.partition" whenever the state of a partition changes. Patch 2: Properly handle partition root tree and make partition invalid in case changes to cpuset.cpus violate any of the partition root constraints. Patch 3: Add a new partition state "isolated" to create a partition root without load balancing. This is for handling intermitten workloads that have a strict low latency requirement. Patch 4: Allow partition roots that are not the top cpuset to distribute all its cpus to child partitions as long as there is no task associated with that partition root. This allows more flexibility for middleware to manage multiple partitions. Patch 5 updates the cgroup-v2.rst file accordingly. Patch 6 adds a new cpuset test to test the new cpuset partition code. Waiman Long (6): cgroup/cpuset: Enable event notification when partition state changes cgroup/cpuset: Properly handle partition root tree cgroup/cpuset: Add a new isolated cpus.partition type cgroup/cpuset: Allow non-top parent partition root to distribute out all CPUs cgroup/cpuset: Update description of cpuset.cpus.partition in cgroup-v2.rst kselftest/cgroup: Add cpuset v2 partition root state test Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v2.rst | 104 +-- kernel/cgroup/cpuset.c | 282 +++++--- tools/testing/selftests/cgroup/Makefile | 5 +- .../selftests/cgroup/test_cpuset_prs.sh | 632 ++++++++++++++++++ tools/testing/selftests/cgroup/wait_inotify.c | 86 +++ 5 files changed, 980 insertions(+), 129 deletions(-) create mode 100755 tools/testing/selftests/cgroup/test_cpuset_prs.sh create mode 100644 tools/testing/selftests/cgroup/wait_inotify.c -- 2.18.1