linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 0/5] cpuacct, cgroup: Kill cgroup

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Message-ID: <1364553360.5053.84.camel@laptop>
Date:	Fri, 29 Mar 2013 11:36:00 +0100
From:	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
To:	Li Zefan <lizefan@...wei.com>
Cc:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>, Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Cgroups <cgroups@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 0/5] cpuacct, cgroup: Kill cgroup_subsys.active

On Fri, 2013-03-29 at 14:43 +0800, Li Zefan wrote:
> cpuacct is the only user of cgroup_subsys.active flag.
> 
> The flag is needed because cpuacct_charge() and
> cpuacct_account_field() can
> be called when cpuacct hasn't been initialized during system bootup.
> 
> This patch initializes cpuacct earlier, and the result is we don't
> have
> to check the flag in scheduler hot path.
> 
> Note, this patchset is based on "[PATCH v2 0/7] sched: Split cpuacct"
> 
>         http://lkml.org/lkml/2013/3/28/1
> 
> 0001-cpuacct-allocate-per_cpu-cpuusage-for-root-cpuacct-s.patch
> 0002-cpuacct-Initialize-root-cpuacct-earlier.patch
> 0003-cpuacct-Initialize-cpuacct-subsystem-earlier.patch
> 0004-cpuacct-No-need-to-check-subsys-active-state.patch
> 0005-cgroup-Remove-subsys.active-flag.patch


Seems sane enough

Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>

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