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Message-ID: <515BF41D.9080300@parallels.com>
Date: Wed, 3 Apr 2013 13:19:25 +0400
From: Glauber Costa <glommer@...allels.com>
To: Li Zefan <lizefan@...wei.com>
CC: <linux-mm@...ck.org>, LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
Cgroups <cgroups@...r.kernel.org>, Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>,
Michal Hocko <mhocko@...e.cz>,
KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@...fujitsu.com>,
Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH 0/7] memcg: make memcg's life cycle the same as cgroup
On 04/03/2013 01:11 PM, Li Zefan wrote:
> The historical reason that memcg didn't use css_get in some cases, is that
> cgroup couldn't be removed if there're still css refs. The situation has
> changed so that rmdir a cgroup will succeed regardless css refs, but won't
> be freed until css refs goes down to 0.
>
> This is an early post, and it's NOT TESTED. I just want to see if the changes
> are fine in general.
Well, from my PoV, this will in general greatly simplify memcg lifecycle
management.
Indeed, I can remember no other reason for those complications other
than the problem with removing directories. If cgroup no longer have
this limitation, I would much rather see your approach in.
I will look into the patches individually soon
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