Re: [PATCH v4 2/2] cgroups: add a pids subsystem

Aleksa Sarai
2015-03-12T02:28:10Z

> I did not necessarily word this very clearly. What I meant is that
> /proc/sys/kernel/pid_max is essentially an external limiting factor that
> caps the total number of pids that can be under the root cgroup and it's
> children, not that the cgroup in any way payed attention to it. It might be
> useful to be able to just disable the sysctl option and set the value
> through the root cgroup, solely or consistency, although such usage isn't
> something I would consider essential in any way.

Maybe this is something that can be reviewed as a separate patchset to this
one? I'd much prefer that we actually get per-cgroup process limiting merged
first, then deal with such features separately.

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Aleksa Sarai (cyphar)