linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 00/11 v5] cgroups: Task counter subsystem

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Message-ID: <20110913150115.GB23424@somewhere>
Date:	Tue, 13 Sep 2011 17:01:19 +0200
From:	Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>
To:	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
Cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Paul Menage <paul@...lmenage.org>,
	Li Zefan <lizf@...fujitsu.com>,
	Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>,
	Aditya Kali <adityakali@...gle.com>,
	Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>,
	Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@...y.org>,
	Tim Hockin <thockin@...kin.org>, Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>,
	Containers <containers@...ts.osdl.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/11 v5] cgroups: Task counter subsystem

On Tue, Sep 13, 2011 at 04:49:20PM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Tue, 2011-09-13 at 16:37 +0200, Frederic Weisbecker wrote:
> > Because cgroup_task_limit.c sounds way too much generic to be
> > self-explanatory.
> 
> Uhm, why? That's exactly what it does, no? It limits the number of
> tasks.

To me that name sounds too generic. It's like something that does
a random limit on the tasks. Could be memory, IO or whatever. But
not something on the number of tasks.

Or may be cgroup_tasks_limit.c (note the "s" that tells about tasks
as a set), or cgroup_max_tasks.c ?
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