linux-kernel - Re: How to draw values for /proc/stat

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Message-ID: <4EE5006F.6070604@gmail.com>
Date:	Sun, 11 Dec 2011 14:11:43 -0500
From:	KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@...il.com>
To:	Glauber Costa <glommer@...allels.com>
CC:	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>,
	Paul Turner <pjt@...gle.com>, cgroups@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, devel@...nvz.org,
	Linux Containers <containers@...ts.osdl.org>,
	KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@...fujitsu.com>,
	Balbir Singh <bsingharora@...il.com>,
	Serge Hallyn <serge.hallyn@...onical.com>,
	Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>
Subject: Re: How to draw values for /proc/stat


>>> IOW a /proc namespace coupled to cgroup scope would do what you want.
>>> Now my head hurts..
>>
>> Mine too. The idea is good, but too broad. Boils down to: How do you
>> couple them? And none of the methods I thought about seemed to make any
>> sense.
>>
>> If we really want to have the values in /proc being opted-in, I think
>> Kamezawa's idea of a mount option is the winner so far.

 > diff --git a/include/linux/cgroup.h b/include/linux/cgroup.h
 > index 1b7f9d5..f0bc2e9 100644
 > --- a/include/linux/cgroup.h
 > +++ b/include/linux/cgroup.h
 > @@ -158,6 +158,7 @@ enum {
 > 	 * Clone cgroup values when creating a new child cgroup
 > 	 */
 > 	CGRP_CLONE_CHILDREN,
 > +	CGRP_PROC_OVERLAY,
 > };

I'm not cgroup expert, but I doubt it is mount option. I suspect it's
cgroup option. That's said, if we have following two directories,

/cgroup-for-virtualization
/cgroup-for-resource-management

are both directory affected the overlay flag? I don't think it is not
optimal. Why? we must care some system software (e.g. kvm, systemd) are
using cgroup internally and we expected this trend will grow more.

So, I doubt namespace issue can be solved by such tiny patch.

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