linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v4 0/4] cgroups: support for module-loadable subsystems

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Date:	Thu, 7 Jan 2010 16:51:17 +0900
From:	KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@...fujitsu.com>
To:	Ben Blum <bblum@...rew.cmu.edu>
Cc:	Li Zefan <lizf@...fujitsu.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>, menage@...gle.com,
	containers@...ts.linux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 0/4] cgroups: support for module-loadable subsystems

On Thu, 7 Jan 2010 02:48:12 -0500
Ben Blum <bblum@...rew.cmu.edu> wrote:

> >  2. Making this to be reasonable value.
> > #define CGROUP_SUBSYS_COUNT (BITS_PER_BYTE*sizeof(unsigned long))
> >    I can't find why.
> 
> "We limit to this many since cgroupfs_root has subsys_bits to keep track
> of all of them." should it be less, perhaps?

It's ok if it's clear that
"this decistion is done by implementation choice, not by cgroup's nature"

> the memory footprint is not
> great, it is true, but implementing dynamically sized subsystem tracking
> data structures requires much cleverer code in many places.
> 
yes. I don't request that.

> >  3. show whehter a subsys is a loadable module or not via /proc/cgroups
> 
> with just "y" or "n"? possible, and probably easy. do note that since
> they are sorted by subsys_id, all the ones above a certain line will be
> "n" and all below will be "y".
> 
yes. 

#subsys_name    hierarchy       num_cgroups     enabled  module
cpuset  0       1       1	0

and 0/1 to show y/n ? (but this cause interface incompatibility...)


Thanks,
-Kame
   

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