Re: [PATCH mm v3 0/9] memcg: accounting for objects allocated by mkdir cgroup

Michal Koutný
2022-06-01T09:15:43Z

On Wed, Jun 01, 2022 at 06:43:27AM +0300, Vasily Averin <vvs-GEFAQzZX7r8dnm+yROfE0A@public.gmane.org> wrote:
> CT-901 /# cat /sys/fs/cgroup/memory/cgroup.subgroups_limit
> 512
> CT-901 /# echo 3333 > /sys/fs/cgroup/memory/cgroup.subgroups_limit
> -bash: echo: write error: Operation not permitted
> CT-901 /# echo 333 > /sys/fs/cgroup/memory/cgroup.subgroups_limit
> -bash: echo: write error: Operation not permitted
>
> I doubt this way can be accepted in upstream, however for OpenVz
> something like this it is mandatory because it much better
> than nothing.

Is this customization of yours something like cgroup.max.descendants on
the unified (v2) hierarchy? (Just curious.)

(It can be made inaccessible from within the subtree either with cgroup
ns or good old FS permissions.)

Michal