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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: Ben Blum <bblum@andrew.cmu.edu>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	containers@lists.linux-foundation.org, lizf@cn.fujitsu.com,
	menage@google.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 0/4] cgroups: support for module-loadable subsystems
Date: Wed, 6 Jan 2010 16:04:14 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100106160414.bd555474.akpm@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20091231051050.GA714@andrew.cmu.edu>

On Thu, 31 Dec 2009 00:10:50 -0500
Ben Blum <bblum@andrew.cmu.edu> wrote:

> This patch series implements support for building, loading, and
> unloading subsystems as modules, both within and outside the kernel
> source tree. It provides an interface cgroup_load_subsys() and
> cgroup_unload_subsys() which modular subsystems can use to register and
> depart during runtime. The net_cls classifier subsystem serves as the
> example for a subsystem which can be converted into a module using these
> changes.

What is the value in this?  What are the usage scenarios?  Why does the
benefit of this change exceed the cost/risk/etc of merging it?

  parent reply	other threads:[~2010-01-07  0:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-12-31  5:10 [PATCH v4 0/4] cgroups: support for module-loadable subsystems Ben Blum
2009-12-31  5:12 ` [PATCH v4 1/4] cgroups: revamp subsys array Ben Blum
2009-12-31  5:13 ` [PATCH v4 2/4] cgroups: subsystem module loading interface Ben Blum
2009-12-31  5:14 ` [PATCH v4 3/4] cgroups: subsystem module unloading Ben Blum
2009-12-31  5:15 ` [PATCH v4 4/4] cgroups: net_cls as module Ben Blum
2010-01-07  0:04 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2010-01-07  1:26   ` [PATCH v4 0/4] cgroups: support for module-loadable subsystems Ben Blum
2010-01-07  3:07     ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2010-01-07  6:42       ` Li Zefan
2010-01-07  7:16         ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2010-01-07  7:48           ` Ben Blum
2010-01-07  7:51             ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2010-01-07  8:04               ` Ben Blum
2010-01-07  8:14         ` Ben Blum
2010-01-07  8:22           ` Ben Blum
2010-01-08  5:27         ` Ben Blum
2010-01-08  5:29           ` [RFC] [PATCH 1/2] cgroups: modular subsystems support for use_id Ben Blum
2010-01-08  5:30           ` [RFC] [PATCH 2/2] cgroups: blkio subsystem as module Ben Blum
2010-01-08 15:10             ` Vivek Goyal
2010-01-12  0:21               ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2010-01-14  9:32                 ` Balbir Singh
2010-01-14 11:42                   ` Vivek Goyal
2010-01-08 16:33             ` Vivek Goyal
2010-01-12 23:34               ` Ben Blum
2010-01-12 23:36                 ` [PATCH v2 1/2] cgroups: modular subsystems support for use_id Ben Blum
2010-01-12 23:37                 ` [PATCH v2 2/2] cgroups: blkio subsystem as module Ben Blum
2010-01-14  9:15                   ` Jens Axboe
2010-01-14  9:29                     ` Li Zefan

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