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Message-ID: <4A6944E6.1090405@cn.fujitsu.com>
Date: Fri, 24 Jul 2009 13:21:42 +0800
From: Li Zefan <lizf@...fujitsu.com>
To: Paul Menage <menage@...gle.com>
CC: akpm@...ux-foundation.org, containers@...ts.linux-foundation.org,
linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/4] Allow cgroup hierarchies to be created with no bound
subsystems
Paul Menage wrote:
> Allow cgroup hierarchies to be created with no bound subsystems
>
> This patch removes the restriction that a cgroup hierarchy must have
> at least one bound subsystem. The mount option "none" is treated as
> an explicit request for no bound subsystems.
>
> A hierarchy with no subsystems can be useful for plain task tracking,
> and is also a step towards the support for multiply-bindable
> subsystems.
>
> As part of this change, the hierarchy id is no longer calculated from
> the bitmask of subsystems in the hierarchy (since this is not
> guaranteed to be unique) but is allocated via an ida. Reference
> counts on cgroups from css_set objects are now taken explicitly one
> per hierarchy, rather than one per subsystem.
>
> Example usage:
>
> mount -t cgroup -o none,name=foo cgroup /mnt/cgroup
>
> Based on the "no-op"/"none" subsystem concept proposed by
> kamezawa.hiroyu@...fujitsu.com
>
> Signed-off-by: Paul Menage <menage@...gle.com>
>
Reviewed-by: Li Zefan <lizf@...fujitsu.com>
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