linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v5 01/18] cgroup/misc: Add per resource callbacks for CSS events

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Message-ID: <op.2b8s7yzawjvjmi@hhuan26-mobl.amr.corp.intel.com>
Date:   Tue, 03 Oct 2023 09:29:48 -0500
From:   "Haitao Huang" <haitao.huang@...ux.intel.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 01/18] cgroup/misc: Add per resource callbacks for CSS
 events

On Wed, 27 Sep 2023 04:20:55 -0500, Huang, Kai <kai.huang@...el.com> wrote:

> On Fri, 2023-09-22 at 20:06 -0700, Haitao Huang wrote:
>> From: Kristen Carlson Accardi <kristen@...ux.intel.com>
>>
>> The misc cgroup controller (subsystem) currently does not perform
>> resource type specific action for Cgroups Subsystem State (CSS) events:
>> the 'css_alloc' event when a cgroup is created and the 'css_free' event
>> when a cgroup is destroyed, or in event of user writing the max value to
>> the misc.max file to set the usage limit of a specific resource
>> [admin-guide/cgroup-v2.rst, 5-9. Misc].
>>
>> Define callbacks for those events and allow resource providers to
>> register the callbacks per resource type as needed. This will be
>> utilized later by the EPC misc cgroup support implemented in the SGX
>> driver:
>> - On css_alloc, allocate and initialize necessary structures for EPC
>> reclaiming, e.g., LRU list, work queue, etc.
>> - On css_free, cleanup and free those structures created in alloc.
>> - On max_write, trigger EPC reclaiming if the new limit is at or below
>> current usage.
>
> Nit:
>
> Wondering why we should trigger EPC reclaiming if the new limit is *at*  
> current
> usage?
>
> I actually don't quite care about why here, but writing these details in  
> the
> changelog may bring unnecessary confusion.  I guess you can just remove  
> all the
> details about what SGX driver needs to do on these callbacks.
>
>
Okay, I'll remove the three bullets on the SGX drive implementation  
details.

Thanks
Haitao