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Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2014 21:15:10 -0700
From: Kay Sievers <kay@...y.org>
To: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>
Cc: Li Zefan <lizefan@...wei.com>, rlove@...ve.org,
Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
containers@...ts.linux-foundation.org, serge.hallyn@...ntu.com,
LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
Lennart Poettering <lennart@...ttering.net>,
eparis@...isplace.org, Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>,
cgroups@...r.kernel.org, john@...nmccutchan.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] cgroup: implement cgroup.subtree_populated for the
default hierarchy
On Tue, Apr 15, 2014 at 8:50 PM, Eric W. Biederman
<ebiederm@...ssion.com> wrote:
> Kay Sievers <kay@...y.org> writes:
>
>> On Tue, Apr 15, 2014 at 7:48 PM, Li Zefan <lizefan@...wei.com> wrote:
>>> On 2014/4/15 5:44, Tejun Heo wrote:
>>>> cgroup users often need a way to determine when a cgroup's
>>>> subhierarchy becomes empty so that it can be cleaned up. cgroup
>>>> currently provides release_agent for it; unfortunately, this mechanism
>>>> is riddled with issues.
>>>>
>>>> * It delivers events by forking and execing a userland binary
>>>> specified as the release_agent. This is a long deprecated method of
>>>> notification delivery. It's extremely heavy, slow and cumbersome to
>>>> integrate with larger infrastructure.
>>>>
>>>> * There is single monitoring point at the root. There's no way to
>>>> delegate management of subtree.
>>>>
>>>> * The event isn't recursive. It triggers when a cgroup doesn't have
>>>> any tasks or child cgroups. Events for internal nodes trigger only
>>>> after all children are removed. This again makes it impossible to
>>>> delegate management of subtree.
>>>>
>>>> * Events are filtered from the kernel side. "notify_on_release" file
>>>> is used to subscribe to or suppress release event. This is
>>>> unnecessarily complicated and probably done this way because event
>>>> delivery itself was expensive.
>>>>
>>>> This patch implements interface file "cgroup.subtree_populated" which
>>>> can be used to monitor whether the cgroup's subhierarchy has tasks in
>>>> it or not. Its value is 0 if there is no task in the cgroup and its
>>>> descendants; otherwise, 1, and kernfs_notify() notificaiton is
>>>> triggers when the value changes, which can be monitored through poll
>>>> and [di]notify.
>>>>
>>>
>>> For the old notification mechanism, the path of the cgroup that becomes
>>> empty will be passed to the user specified release agent. Like this:
>>>
>>> # cat /sbin/cpuset_release_agent
>>> #!/bin/sh
>>> rmdir /dev/cpuset/$1
>>>
>>> How do we achieve this using inotify?
>>>
>>> - monitor all the cgroups, or
>>> - monitor all the leaf cgroups, and travel cgrp->parent to delete all
>>> empty cgroups.
>>> - monitor root cgroup only, and travel the whole hierarchy to find
>>> empy cgroups when it gets an fs event.
>>>
>>> Seems none of them is scalible.
>>
>> The manager would add all cgroups as watches to one inotify file
>> descriptor, it should not be problem to do that.
>
> inotify won't work on cgroupfs.
Inotify on kernfs will work.
Kay
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