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Date:	Fri, 23 Jul 2010 05:06:55 -0700
From:	Greg KH <gregkh@...e.de>
To:	Jan Safranek <jsafrane@...hat.com>
Cc:	Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@...hat.com>,
	Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@...y.org>,
	Paul Menage <menage@...gle.com>,
	Li Zefan <lizf@...fujitsu.com>,
	Lennart Poettering <lennart@...ttering.net>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@...fujitsu.com>,
	Ben Blum <bblum@...rew.cmu.edu>,
	containers@...ts.linux-foundation.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	"Daniel P. Berrange" <berrange@...hat.com>,
	Balbir Singh <balbir@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Ivana Hutarova Varekova <varekova@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] cgroupfs: create /sys/fs/cgroup to mount cgroupfs on

On Fri, Jul 23, 2010 at 12:32:26PM +0200, Jan Safranek wrote:
> On 07/23/2010 04:07 AM, Vivek Goyal wrote:
>> On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 04:14:01PM -0700, Greg KH wrote:
>>> On Fri, Jul 23, 2010 at 01:08:12AM +0200, Kay Sievers wrote:
>>>> On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 23:18, Greg KH<gregkh@...e.de>  wrote:
>>>>>> For my testing I now always use /cgroup/ and create directories under it
>>>>>> /cgroup/blkio /cgroup/cpu etc and mount controllers on respective
>>>>>> directories.
>>>>>
>>>>> Lennart and Kay, is this what systemd is doing?  I really don't think we
>>>>> should be adding a root /cgroup/ mount point to the system for something
>>>>> like this.
>>>>
>>>> Already solved. Systemd always mounts an empty tmpfs at the 'cgroup'
>>>> mountpoint, and stuff is free to create subdirs there. Systemd itself
>>>> mount 'systemd' there.
>>>
>>> Ah, that makes it easier.  Paul and Vivek, any objection to this patch
>>> going in now?
>>>
>>
>> This sounds reasonable to me also.
>>
>> Jan, I know you have been working in this area and raised concenrs about
>> cgroup mount point in the past. Does it look good to you?
>
> I would prefer some place where subdirectories can be created for 
> individual hierarchies without additional tmpfs there. But as I understand 
> /sys, it's not an easy feature to implement it there, so no, I am not 
> against /sys/fs/cgroup.

Great, thanks for letting us know.

So, who can get this patch into mainline?

thanks,

greg k-h
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