[PATCH v2 2/2] sched_deadline, docs: add affinity setting with cgroup2 cpuset controller

From: Shashank Balaji
Date: Tue May 27 2025 - 10:56:33 EST


Setting the cpu affinity mask of a SCHED_DEADLINE process using the cgroup v1
cpuset controller is already detailed. Add similar information for cgroup v2's
cpuset controller.

Signed-off-by: Shashank Balaji <shashank.mahadasyam@xxxxxxxx>
---
Documentation/scheduler/sched-deadline.rst | 29 +++++++++++++++++++++++------
1 file changed, 23 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/scheduler/sched-deadline.rst b/Documentation/scheduler/sched-deadline.rst
index b7aa96b0a02576311ce8fafc51b8b6949760927a..ec543a12f848e9d7215cc72c6068cf7b6b925dd8 100644
--- a/Documentation/scheduler/sched-deadline.rst
+++ b/Documentation/scheduler/sched-deadline.rst
@@ -20,7 +20,8 @@ Deadline Task Scheduling
4.3 Default behavior
4.4 Behavior of sched_yield()
5. Tasks CPU affinity
- 5.1 SCHED_DEADLINE and cpusets HOWTO
+ 5.1 Using cgroup v1 cpuset controller
+ 5.2 Using cgroup v2 cpuset controller
6. Future plans
A. Test suite
B. Minimal main()
@@ -671,12 +672,15 @@ Deadline Task Scheduling
5. Tasks CPU affinity
=====================

- -deadline tasks cannot have an affinity mask smaller that the entire
- root_domain they are created on. However, affinities can be specified
- through the cpuset facility (Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/cpusets.rst).
+ Deadline tasks cannot have a cpu affinity mask smaller than the root domain they
+ are created on. So, using ``sched_setaffinity(2)`` won't work. Instead, the
+ the deadline task should be created in a restricted root domain. This can be
+ done using the cpuset controller of either cgroup v1 (deprecated) or cgroup v2.
+ See :ref:`Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/cpusets.rst <cpusets>` and
+ :ref:`Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v2.rst <cgroup-v2>` for more information.

-5.1 SCHED_DEADLINE and cpusets HOWTO
-------------------------------------
+5.1 Using cgroup v1 cpuset controller
+-------------------------------------

An example of a simple configuration (pin a -deadline task to CPU0) follows::

@@ -693,6 +697,19 @@ Deadline Task Scheduling
echo $$ > cpu0/tasks
chrt --sched-runtime 100000 --sched-period 200000 --deadline 0 yes > /dev/null

+5.2 Using cgroup v2 cpuset controller
+-------------------------------------
+
+ Assuming the cgroup v2 root is mounted at ``/sys/fs/cgroup``.
+
+ cd /sys/fs/cgroup
+ echo '+cpuset' > cgroup.subtree_control
+ mkdir deadline_group
+ echo 0 > deadline_group/cpuset.cpus
+ echo 'root' > deadline_group/cpuset.cpus.partition
+ echo $$ > deadline_group/cgroup.procs
+ chrt --sched-runtime 100000 --sched-period 200000 --deadline 0 yes > /dev/null
+
6. Future plans
===============


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