On Wed, Jun 12, 2019 at 09:02:44AM -0700, Tejun Heo wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 12, 2019 at 11:50:48AM -0400, Joel Savitz wrote:
> > In the case that a process is constrained by taskset(1) (i.e.
> > sched_setaffinity(2)) to a subset of available cpus, and all of those are
> > subsequently offlined, the scheduler will set tsk->cpus_allowed to
> > the current value of task_cs(tsk)->effective_cpus.
> > 
> > This is done via a call to do_set_cpus_allowed() in the context of 
> > cpuset_cpus_allowed_fallback() made by the scheduler when this case is
> > detected. This is the only call made to cpuset_cpus_allowed_fallback()
> > in the latest mainline kernel.
> > 
> > However, this is not sane behavior.
> 
> While not perfect (we'll need to stop updating task's cpumask from
> cpuset to make), this is still a signifcant improvement.
> 
>  Acked-by: Tejun Heo <t...@kernel.org>
> 
> If there's no objection, I'll route it through the cgroup tree.

Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <pet...@infradead.org>

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