On Sat, Mar 08, 2014 at 12:40:58PM +0000, Dietmar Eggemann wrote: > > > >I don't have a strong opinion about using or not a cpu argument for > >setting the flags of a level (it was part of the initial proposal > >before we start to completely rework the build of sched_domain) > >Nevertheless, I see one potential concern that you can have completely > >different flags configuration of the same sd level of 2 cpus. > > Could you elaborate a little bit further regarding the last sentence? Do you > think that those completely different flags configuration would make it > impossible, that the load-balance code could work at all at this sd?
So a problem with such an interfaces is that is makes it far too easy to generate completely broken domains. You can, for two cpus in the same domain provide, different flags; such a configuration doesn't make any sense at all. Now I see why people would like to have this; but unless we can make it robust I'd be very hesitant to go this route. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
