cgroup/cpuset: Introduce remote partition
One can use "cpuset.cpus.partition" to create multiple scheduling domains or to produce a set of isolated CPUs where load balancing is disabled. The former use case is less common but the latter one can be frequently used especially for the Telco use cases like DPDK. The existing "isolated" partition can be used to produce isolated CPUs if the applications have full control of a system. However, in a containerized environment where all the apps are run in a container, it is hard to distribute out isolated CPUs from the root down given the unified hierarchy nature of cgroup v2. The container running on isolated CPUs can be several layers down from the root. The current partition feature requires that all the ancestors of a leaf partition root must be parititon roots themselves. This can be hard to configure. This patch introduces a new type of partition called remote partition. A remote partition is a partition whose parent is not a partition root itself and its CPUs are acquired directly from available CPUs in the top cpuset through a hierachical distribution of exclusive CPUs down from it. By contrast, the existing type of partitions where their parents have to be valid partition roots are referred to as local partitions as they have to be clustered around a parent partition root. Child local partitons can be created under a remote partition, but a remote partition cannot be created under a local partition. We may relax this limitation in the future if there are use cases for such configuration. Manually writing to the "cpuset.cpus.exclusive" file is not necessary when creating local partitions. However, writing proper values to "cpuset.cpus.exclusive" down the cgroup hierarchy before the target remote partition root is mandatory for the creation of a remote partition. The value in "cpuset.cpus.exclusive.effective" may change if its "cpuset.cpus" or its parent's "cpuset.cpus.exclusive.effective" changes. Signed-off-by: Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
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