cpuset: allow to move tasks to empty cpusets
Currently some cpuset behaviors are not friendly when cpuset is co-mounted
with other cgroup controllers.
Now with this patchset if cpuset is mounted with sane_behavior option,
it behaves differently:
- Tasks will be kept in empty cpusets when hotplug happens and take
masks of ancestors with non-empty cpus/mems, instead of being moved to
an ancestor.
- A task can be moved into an empty cpuset, and again it takes masks of
ancestors, so the user can drop a task into a newly created cgroup without
having to do anything for it.
As tasks can reside in empy cpusets, here're some rules:
- They can be moved to another cpuset, regardless it's empty or not.
- Though it takes masks from ancestors, it takes other configs from the
empty cpuset.
- If the ancestors' masks are changed, those tasks will also be updated
to take new masks.
v2: add documentation in include/linux/cgroup.h
Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizefan@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
diff --git a/include/linux/cgroup.h b/include/linux/cgroup.h
index 53e81a6..74e8b8e 100644
--- a/include/linux/cgroup.h
+++ b/include/linux/cgroup.h
@@ -281,6 +281,9 @@
* and take masks of ancestors with non-empty cpus/mems, instead of
* being moved to an ancestor.
*
+ * - cpuset: a task can be moved into an empty cpuset, and again it
+ * takes masks of ancestors.
+ *
* - memcg: use_hierarchy is on by default and the cgroup file for
* the flag is not created.
*