linux-kernel - Re: [RFD] cgroup: about multiple hierarchies

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [thread-next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Message-ID: <20120312222817.GI23255@google.com>
Date:	Mon, 12 Mar 2012 15:28:17 -0700
From:	Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>
To:	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
Cc:	Li Zefan <lizf@...fujitsu.com>,
	containers@...ts.linux-foundation.org, cgroups@...r.kernel.org,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@...y.org>,
	Lennart Poettering <lennart@...ttering.net>,
	Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@...hat.com>,
	Michal Schmidt <mschmidt@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: [RFD] cgroup: about multiple hierarchies

Hey,

On Mon, Mar 12, 2012 at 11:22:18PM +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Mon, 2012-03-12 at 15:10 -0700, Tejun Heo wrote:
> > 
> > * How to map controllers which aren't aware of full hierarchy is still
> >   an open question but I'm still standing by one active node on any
> >   root-to-leaf path w/ root group serving as the special rest group. 
> 
> What does this mean?

Let's say we have a tree like the following.

         root
      /   |   \
     G1  G2   G3
             /  \
	   G31  G32

So, for cgroups which don't support full hierarchy, it'll be viewed as
either,

         root
      /   |   \
     G1  G2   G3

or

          root
      /   |   |  \
     G1  G2  G31 G32

With root being treated specially, probably as just being a equal
group as other groups, I'm not fully determined about that yet.

Thanks.

-- 
tejun
--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at  http://www.tux.org/lkml/