Re: [RFC][PATCH] cpuset, sched: Fix cpuset sched_relax_domain_level

[Jason Low]

On Fri, 2015-01-30 at 12:13 +0800, Zefan Li wrote:
> On 2015/1/29 4:47, Jason Low wrote:
> > The cpuset.sched_relax_domain_level can control how far we do
> > immediate load balancing on a system. However, it was found on recent
> > kernels that echo'ing a value into cpuset.sched_relax_domain_level
> > did not reduce any immediate load balancing.
> > 
> > The reason this occurred was because the update_domain_attr_tree() traversal
> > did not update for the "top_cpuset". This resulted in nothing being changed
> > when modifying the sched_relax_domain_level parameter.
> > 
> > This patch was able to address that problem by having update_domain_attr_tree()
> > allowing updates for the root (top_cpuset) in the cpuset traversal.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Jason Low <jason.low2@xxxxxx>
> 
> Thanks for finding this bug!
> 
> Please Add:
> 
> Cc: <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> # 3.9+
> Fixes: fc560a26acce ("cpuset: replace cpuset->stack_list with cpuset_for_each_descendant_pre()")

Okay, I will send out a new version.

Thanks,
Jason

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