mirror of
https://github.com/golang/sys.git
synced 2026-02-08 03:36:03 +03:00
71871db0f3
Some programs (such as container runtimes) want to reset their CPU
affinity if they are spawned by processes with a particular CPU
affinity. Container runtimes didn't really have to deal with this issue
until Linux 6.2 when the cpuset cgroup was changed to no longer
auto-reset CPU affinity in this case.
A naive approach to resetting your CPU affinity would be to get the
number of CPUs by looking at "/proc/stat" or "/sys/devices/system/cpu"
(note that runtime.NumCPU() actually returns the CPU affinity of the
process at startup time, which isn't useful for this purpose) and then
asking for all of those CPUs.
However, sched_setaffinity(2) will silently ignore any CPU bits set in
the provided CPUSet if they do not exist or are not enabled in the
cpuset cgroup of the process. Unfortunately, setting every possible CPU
bit in CPUSet with (*CPUSet).Set() is very inefficient.
If it were possible to just memset(0xFF) the CPUSet array, users would
be able to reset their CPU affinity very cheaply. However, Go doesn't
have a memset primitive that can be used in that way.
Obvious solutions like setting the array elements of CPUSet to (^0) do
not work because CPUSet is an array of a private newtype and so the
compiler complains if you try to use a constant like (^0) without a
cast (and we cannot use a cast because the type is private):
cannot use ^0 (untyped int constant -1) as "golang.org/x/sys/unix".cpuMask value in assignment (overflows)
The only real alternative is to do something quite hacky like:
cpuset := unix.CPUSet{}
for i := range cpuset {
cpuset[i]-- // underflow to 0xFF..FF
}
... which is the solution we use in runc.
It would be much nicer to have a helper that does this memset for us in
a less hacky way, since resetting CPU affinity seems like a fairly
common operation.
Ref: Linux kernel commit da019032819a ("sched: Enforce user requested affinity")
Signed-off-by: Aleksa Sarai <cyphar@cyphar.com>
sys
This repository holds supplemental Go packages for low-level interactions with the operating system.
Report Issues / Send Patches
This repository uses Gerrit for code changes. To learn how to submit changes to this repository, see https://go.dev/doc/contribute.
The git repository is https://go.googlesource.com/sys.
The main issue tracker for the sys repository is located at https://go.dev/issues. Prefix your issue with "x/sys:" in the subject line, so it is easy to find.