Re: [ckrm-tech] [RFC][PATCH] UBC: user resource beancounters

[Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>]

Ar Mer, 2006-08-23 am 19:04 -0700, ysgrifennodd Chandra Seetharaman:
> > A single centralized structure that has fields that are mostly used by
> > every one should be okay I think.
> 
> You mean to say definition like
> 
> struct user_beancounter {
> 	fields;/* fields that exists now */
> 	
> 	int kmemsize_ctlr_info1;
> 	char *kmemsize_ctlr_info2;
> 
> 	char *oomguar_ctlr_info1;
> 	char *oomguar_ctlr_info2;
> 
> 	/* and so on */
> }
> 
> is the right thing to do ? even though oomguar controller doesn't care
> about kmemsize_ctlr_info* etc.,


All you need is

struct wombat_controller
{
	struct user_beancounter counter;
	void (*wombat_pest_control)(struct wombat *w);
	atomic_t wombat_population;
	int (*wombat_destructor)(struct wombat *w);
};

and just embed the counter in whatever you are controlling. The point of
the beancounters themselves is to be *SIMPLE*. It's unfortunate that
some folk seem obsessed with extending them for a million theoretical
projects rather than getting them in and working and then extending them
for real projects. Please lets not have another EVMS.

Alan