linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2/2] Cpusets API: Update cpusets to use cgroup structured file API

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Date:	Sat, 23 Feb 2008 00:06:31 -0800
From:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	Paul Menage <menage@...gle.com>
Cc:	pj@....com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] Cpusets API: Update cpusets to use cgroup
 structured file API

On Tue, 19 Feb 2008 20:54:10 -0800 Paul Menage <menage@...gle.com> wrote:

> Many of the cpusets control files are simple integer values, which
> don't require the overhead of memory allocations for reads and writes.
> 
> Move the handlers for these control files into cpuset_read_uint() and
> cpuset_write_uint(). This also has the advantage that the control
> files show up as "u64" rather than "string" in the cgroup.api file.

again, the naming here is a bit misleading - s/uint/u64/ would be clearer.

It is unclear to me what the relationship is between this and your other
cgroup pseudo-fs changes, but as this is fiddling with a userspace
interface we should get a wiggle on - we don't want to let things like this
slip out to 2.6.26.

So..  please resend everything?
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