linux-kernel - Re: [RFC] cgroup TODOs

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Message-ID: <20120914220607.GX17747@google.com>
Date:	Fri, 14 Sep 2012 15:06:07 -0700
From:	Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>
To:	Dhaval Giani <dhaval.giani@...il.com>
Cc:	containers@...ts.linux-foundation.org, cgroups@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Li Zefan <lizefan@...wei.com>,
	Michal Hocko <mhocko@...e.cz>,
	Glauber Costa <glommer@...allels.com>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
	Paul Turner <pjt@...gle.com>,
	Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>,
	Thomas Graf <tgraf@...g.ch>,
	"Serge E. Hallyn" <serue@...ibm.com>,
	Paul Mackerras <paulus@...ba.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
	Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...stprotocols.net>,
	Neil Horman <nhorman@...driver.com>,
	"Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC] cgroup TODOs

Hello,

On Fri, Sep 14, 2012 at 06:03:16PM -0400, Dhaval Giani wrote:
> >
> >   * Sort & unique when listing tasks.  Even the documentation says it
> >     doesn't happen but we have a good hunk of code doing it in
> >     cgroup.c.  I'm gonna rip it out at some point.  Again, if you
> >     don't like it, scream.
> 
> I think some userspace tools do assume the uniq bit. So if we can
> preserve that, great!

Can you point me to those?  If there are users depending on it, I
won't break it, at least for now, but I at least wanna know more about
them.

Thanks.

-- 
tejun
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