linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 06/10] cgroup: improve old cgroup handling in cgroup_attach

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Date:	Mon, 14 Nov 2011 21:37:51 +0100
From:	Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>
To:	Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>
Cc:	paul@...lmenage.org, rjw@...k.pl, lizf@...fujitsu.com,
	linux-pm@...ts.linux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	containers@...ts.linux-foundation.org, matthltc@...ibm.com,
	akpm@...ux-foundation.org, oleg@...hat.com,
	kamezawa.hiroyu@...fujitsu.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 06/10] cgroup: improve old cgroup handling in
 cgroup_attach_proc()

On Tue, Nov 01, 2011 at 04:46:29PM -0700, Tejun Heo wrote:
> cgroup_attach_proc() behaves differently from cgroup_attach_task() in
> the following aspects.
> 
> * All hooks are invoked even if no task is actually being moved.
> 
> * ->can_attach_task() is called for all tasks in the group whether the
>   new cgrp is different from the current cgrp or not; however,
>   ->attach_task() is skipped if new equals new.  This makes the calls
>   asymmetric.
> 
> This patch improves old cgroup handling in cgroup_attach_proc() by
> looking up the current cgroup at the head, recording it in the flex
> array along with the task itself, and using it to remove the above two
> differences.  This will also ease further changes.
> 
> -v2: nr_todo renamed to nr_migrating_tasks as per Paul Menage's
>      suggestion.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>
> Acked-by: Paul Menage <paul@...lmenage.org>
> Reviewed-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@...fujitsu.com>
> Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@...fujitsu.com>

Reviewed-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>
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