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>
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Li Zefan 2013-06-09 17:16:46 +08:00 committed by Tejun Heo
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@ -281,6 +281,9 @@ enum {
* 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.
*