Re: [PATCH 0/5] cgroup/cpuset: Miscellaneous updates

[Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>]

Hi Waiman,

On Mon, Mar 06, 2023 at 03:08:44PM -0500, Waiman Long wrote:
> This patch series includes miscellaneous update to the cpuset and its
> testing code.
> 
> Patch 2 is actually a follow-up of commit 3fb906e7fabb ("cgroup/cpuset:
> Don't filter offline CPUs in cpuset_cpus_allowed() for top cpuset tasks").
> 
> Patches 3-4 are for handling corner cases when dealing with
> task_cpu_possible_mask().

Thanks for cc'ing me on these. I ran my arm64 asymmetric tests and, fwiw,
I get the same results as vanilla -rc2, so that's good.

One behaviour that persists (and which I thought might be addressed by this
series) is the following. Imagine a 4-CPU system with CPUs 0-1 being 64-bit
only. If I configure a parent cpuset with 'cpuset.cpus' of "0-2" and a
child cpuset with 'cpuset.cpus' of "0-1", then attaching a 32-bit task
to the child cpuset will result in an affinity mask of 4. If I then change
'cpuset.cpus' of the parent cpuset to "0-1,3", the affinity mask of the
task remains at '4' whereas it might be nice to update it to '8', in-line
with the new affinity mask of the parent cpuset.

Anyway, I'm not complaining (this is certainly _not_ a regression), but
I thought I'd highlight it in case you were aiming to address this with
your changes.

Cheers,

Will