linux-kernel - Re: Revert for cgroups CPU accounting subsystem patch

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Message-ID: <20071113060038.GC3359@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Date:	Tue, 13 Nov 2007 11:30:38 +0530
From:	Srivatsa Vaddagiri <vatsa@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
To:	"Paul Menage" <menage@...gle.com>
Cc:	"Linus Torvalds" <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	"Andrew Morton" <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	containers@...ts.linux-foundation.org,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	Balbir Singh <balbir@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: Revert for cgroups CPU accounting subsystem patch

On Mon, Nov 12, 2007 at 09:25:32PM -0800, Paul Menage wrote:
> Hi Linus,
> 
> Please can you revert commit 62d0df64065e7c135d0002f069444fbdfc64768f,
> entitled "Task Control Groups: example CPU accounting subsystem" ?

Hi Paul,
	On second thoughts, this may be a usefull controller of its own.
Say I just want to "monitor" usage (for accounting purpose) of a group of 
tasks, but don't want to control their cpu consumption, then cpuacct 
controller would come in handy.

-- 
Regards,
vatsa
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