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From: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com>
To: balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Cc: menage@google.com, dhaval@linux.vnet.ibm.com, xemul@sw.ru,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, containers@lists.osdl.org,
	akpm@linux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: Containers: css_put() dilemma
Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2007 10:53:41 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070717105341.9e51cc79.pj@sgi.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <469CFF2B.1080702@linux.vnet.ibm.com>

> That sounds correct. I wonder now if the solution should be some form
> of delegation for deletion of unreferenced containers (HINT: work queue
> or kernel threads).

At least for cpusets (the mother of all containers), notify on release
is part of the user visible API of cpusets.  The kernel does not remove
cpusets; it runs a user program, /sbin/cpuset_release_agent.  That
program might choose to rmdir the cpuset directory, and/or do other
actions, like notify a batch scheduler that one of its cpusets was
released.

That API is not as sacrosanct as some, but it is working, and I wouldn't
want to break it without good reason.

-- 
                  I won't rest till it's the best ...
                  Programmer, Linux Scalability
                  Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com> 1.925.600.0401

  parent reply	other threads:[~2007-07-17 17:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-07-16 18:50 Containers: css_put() dilemma Balbir Singh
2007-07-16 19:03 ` Paul (宝瑠) Menage
2007-07-17  2:21   ` Balbir Singh
2007-07-17  2:35     ` Paul (宝瑠) Menage
2007-07-17  7:00       ` Balbir Singh
2007-07-17  7:18         ` Paul (宝瑠) Menage
2007-07-17 10:28           ` Balbir Singh
2007-07-17 15:49             ` Paul (宝瑠) Menage
2007-07-17 16:02               ` Dave Hansen
2007-07-17 16:15                 ` Paul (宝瑠) Menage
2007-07-17 17:23               ` Paul Jackson
2007-07-17 17:40               ` Balbir Singh
2007-07-17 17:44                 ` Paul (宝瑠) Menage
2007-07-17 17:55                   ` Paul Jackson
2007-07-17 17:57                     ` Paul (宝瑠) Menage
2007-07-17 18:11                   ` Balbir Singh
2007-07-17 18:26                     ` Paul (宝瑠) Menage
2007-07-18  4:29                       ` Balbir Singh
2007-07-18  5:30                         ` Balbir Singh
2007-07-18  5:52                           ` Srivatsa Vaddagiri
2007-07-18 23:15                           ` Paul Menage
2007-07-19  3:44                             ` Balbir Singh
2007-07-18  6:07                         ` Paul (宝瑠) Menage
2007-07-17 17:53                 ` Paul Jackson [this message]
2007-07-17 17:55                   ` Paul (宝瑠) Menage
2007-07-17 17:58                     ` Paul Jackson

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