linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] cgroup: Add a hint to allow v1 controller to use v2 behavior

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Date:   Thu, 17 Aug 2017 11:48:44 -0700
From:   Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>
To:     Waiman Long <longman@...hat.com>
Cc:     Li Zefan <lizefan@...wei.com>,
        Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] cgroup: Add a hint to allow v1 controller to use
 v2 behavior

Hello, Waiman.

On Thu, Aug 17, 2017 at 02:25:38PM -0400, Waiman Long wrote:
> For some cgroup controllers, the behavior on cgroup v1 differs somewhat
> from cgroup v2. To indicate that a controller can use v2 behavior
> in cgroup v1, a new cgroupfs mount option "v2_mode" is added. This
> is essentially a hint, there is no obligation for a controller to
> comply with this semantics.

Heh, I don't think we can make it a generic flag.  We can't have one
kernel interpreting the option one way and later kernels doing
differently.  Let's just make it cpuset specific - something like
cpuset_v2_mode.

Thanks.

-- 
tejun