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Message-ID: <20150518200655.GB19282@twins.programming.kicks-ass.net>
Date: Mon, 18 May 2015 22:06:55 +0200
From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
To: Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>
Cc: lizefan@...wei.com, cgroups@...r.kernel.org, mingo@...hat.com,
linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCHSET] cgroup, sched: restructure threadgroup locking and
replace it with a percpu_rwsem
On Mon, May 18, 2015 at 12:34:40PM -0400, Tejun Heo wrote:
> On Wed, May 13, 2015 at 04:35:15PM -0400, Tejun Heo wrote:
> > threadgroup locking was added because cgroup needs threadgroups to
> > stay stable across attach operations. It was implemented as a
> > per-signal_struct generic locking mechanism so that other users which
> > require threadgroups stable across blocking operations can use it too;
> > however, it hasn't grown any other use cases and still conditionalized
> > on CONFIG_CGROUPS.
>
> Ingo, Peter, what do you guys think?
I had a brief look and didn't spot anhything really weird. I'll try and
give is a little more time tomorrow.
On routing I think you can take it through the cgroup tree if Ingo is ok
with that.
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