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Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2014 19:09:00 -0400 From: Simo Sorce <ssorce@...hat.com> To: Andy Lutomirski <luto@...capital.net> Cc: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@...hat.com>, "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, cgroups@...r.kernel.org, Network Development <netdev@...r.kernel.org>, "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>, Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>, lpoetter@...hat.com, kay@...hat.com, dwalsh@...hat.com Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] net: Implement SO_PASSCGROUP to enable passing cgroup path On Tue, 2014-04-15 at 14:53 -0700, Andy Lutomirski wrote: > On Tue, Apr 15, 2014 at 2:15 PM, Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@...hat.com> wrote: > > This patch implements socket option SO_PASSCGROUP along the lines of > > SO_PASSCRED. > > > > If SO_PASSCGROUP is set, then recvmsg() will get a control message > > SCM_CGROUP which will contain the cgroup path of sender. This cgroup > > belongs to first mounted hierarchy in the sytem. > > > > SCM_CGROUP control message can only be received and sender can not send > > a SCM_CGROUP message. Kernel automatically generates one if receiver > > chooses to receive one. > > > > This works both for unix stream and datagram sockets. > > > > cgroup information is passed only if either the sender or receiver has > > SO_PASSCGROUP option set. This means for existing workloads they should > > not see any significant performance impact of this change. > > This is odd. Shouldn't an SCM_CGROUP cmsg be generated when the > receiver has SO_PASSCGROUP set and the sender passes SCM_CGROUP to > sendmsg? What would be the point ? Simo. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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