Re: [PATCH] cgroup: cleanup the format of /proc/cgroups

[Feng Tang <feng.tang-ral2JQCrhuEAvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>]

On Sun, Aug 21, 2022 at 09:30:28PM -1000, Tejun Heo wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> On Sun, Aug 21, 2022 at 03:34:46PM +0800, Feng Tang wrote:
> > Currrent /proc/cgroup output is like:
> > 
> >   #subsys_name	hierarchy	num_cgroups	enabled
> >   cpuset	6	1	1
> >   cpu	4	7	1
> >   cpuacct	4	7	1
> >   blkio	8	7	1
> >   memory	9	7	1
> >   ...
> > 
> > Add some indentation to make it more readable without any functional
> > change:
> 
> So, this has been suggested a couple times before and I fully agree that the
> file is really ugly. In the past, we didn't pull the trigger on it for two
> reasons - 1. It is user-visible functional change in that it can break
> really dumb parsers 2. the file is only useful for cgroup1 which has been in
> mostly maintenance mode for many years now. I don't feel that strongly
> either way but still kinda lean towards just leaving it as-is.
 
Ok, makes sense to me. Thanks for the explaination!

Thanks,
Feng


> Thanks.
> 
> -- 
> tejun