From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754111Ab1L1Qgi (ORCPT ); Wed, 28 Dec 2011 11:36:38 -0500 Received: from mail-tul01m020-f174.google.com ([209.85.214.174]:41835 "EHLO mail-tul01m020-f174.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754026Ab1L1Qgh (ORCPT ); Wed, 28 Dec 2011 11:36:37 -0500 Date: Wed, 28 Dec 2011 08:36:31 -0800 From: Tejun Heo To: Li Zefan Cc: LKML , Cgroups Subject: Re: [PATCH] cgroup: fix to allow mounting a hierarchy by name Message-ID: <20111228163631.GN17712@google.com> References: <4EF9291D.7030208@cn.fujitsu.com> <20111227163535.GA17712@google.com> <4EFAB2E2.4040008@cn.fujitsu.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4EFAB2E2.4040008@cn.fujitsu.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hello, Li. On Wed, Dec 28, 2011 at 02:10:42PM +0800, Li Zefan wrote: > The "name" option was introduced along with the "none" option, so we > can distinguish between different cgroup hierarchies which have no > bound subsystems, like this: > > # mount -t cgroup -o none,name=hier1 xxx /cgroup1 > # mount -t cgroup -o none,name=hier2 xxx /cgroup2 > > As the name is unique, we have this "mount by hierarchy name" feature. I could be missing something but does that add anything other than naming convenience? > It looks reasonable, but I guess few people know this feature. We can > live with it, as it only saves us some typing when mounting an existing > hierarchy. On the other hand, removing this small feature can hardly > result in code reduction. If it's a redundant feature which has been broken over a year without anyone complaining, it really doesn't need to exist. It might not save a lot of code but would save some WTH moments. Thanks. -- tejun