Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 20 Nov 2018 07:44:10 -0800 | From | Tejun Heo <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH cgroup/for-4.21 1/2] cpuset: Minor cgroup2 interface updates |
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Hello, Peter.
On Tue, Nov 20, 2018 at 01:46:24PM +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote: > Why though? The Changelog doesn't give rationale for the actual changes.
Ah yeah, sorry about that.
> And I'm not sure I agree with either one of them. > > The partition is a scheduling feature;
So is everything with cpuset.cpus prefix. They're all modifying how scheduler handles the cpus.
> and I like 0/1 much better to type, so why not allow that?
Mostly for consistency and it's generally better to keep interfaces minimal - e.g. what if we need to add support for more key words to the file? Would we assign incrementing integers to them?
Thanks.
-- tejun
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