netdev - Re: [PATCH 2/3] don't take cgroup

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Date:	Fri, 20 Apr 2012 08:30:23 +0800
From:	Li Zefan <lizefan@...wei.com>
To:	Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>
Cc:	Glauber Costa <glommer@...allels.com>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	cgroups@...r.kernel.org, kamezawa.hiroyu@...fujitsu.com,
	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, devel@...nvz.org,
	Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] don't take cgroup_mutex in destroy()

Tejun Heo wrote:

> On Thu, Apr 19, 2012 at 07:49:17PM -0300, Glauber Costa wrote:
>> Most of the destroy functions are only doing very simple things
>> like freeing memory.
>>
>> The ones who goes through lists and such, already use its own
>> locking for those.
>>
>> * The cgroup itself won't go away until we free it, (after destroy)
>> * The parent won't go away because we hold a reference count
>> * There are no more tasks in the cgroup, and the cgroup is declared
>>   dead (cgroup_is_removed() == true)
>>
>> For the blk-cgroup and the cpusets, I got the impression that the mutex
>> is still necessary.
>>
>> For those, I grabbed it from within the destroy function itself.
>>
>> If the maintainer for those subsystems consider it safe to remove
>> it, we can discuss it separately.
> 
> I really don't like cgroup_lock() usage spreading more.  It's
> something which should be contained in cgroup.c proper.  I looked at
> the existing users a while ago and they seemed to be compensating
> deficencies in API, so, if at all possible, let's not spread the
> disease.
> 


Agreed. I used to do cleanups to remove cgroup_lock()s in subsystems
which are really not necessary.

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