linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v4 0/2] cgroup: allow management of subtrees by new cgroup namespaces

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Message-ID: <20160520152244.GB5632@htj.duckdns.org>
Date:	Fri, 20 May 2016 08:22:44 -0700
From:	Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>
To:	Aleksa Sarai <asarai@...e.de>
Cc:	Li Zefan <lizefan@...wei.com>,
	Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>,
	James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@...senPartnership.com>,
	Aleksa Sarai <cyphar@...har.com>, cgroups@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, dev@...ncontainers.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 0/2] cgroup: allow management of subtrees by new
 cgroup namespaces

On Sat, May 21, 2016 at 12:48:48AM +1000, Aleksa Sarai wrote:
> Are there any comments on this version of the patchset? I thought we had
> reached an agreement that the underlying feature (allowing a process to
> manage its own cgroups) was useful. Is there a better way of solving this
> problem, that I don't know of?

I still don't see why this is necessary.  Delegation is done through
chmodding.  There's no reason to deviate for namespaces.

Thanks.

-- 
tejun