From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1760319Ab2D0UV2 (ORCPT ); Fri, 27 Apr 2012 16:21:28 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:54328 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1759116Ab2D0UV1 (ORCPT ); Fri, 27 Apr 2012 16:21:27 -0400 Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2012 16:21:19 -0400 From: Vivek Goyal To: Tejun Heo Cc: axboe@kernel.dk, ctalbott@google.com, rni@google.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, cgroups@vger.kernel.org, containers@lists.linux-foundation.org, fengguang.wu@intel.com, hughd@google.com, akpm@linux-foundation.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 11/11] blkcg: implement per-blkg request allocation Message-ID: <20120427202119.GO10579@redhat.com> References: <1335477561-11131-1-git-send-email-tj@kernel.org> <1335477561-11131-12-git-send-email-tj@kernel.org> <20120427194654.GN10579@redhat.com> <20120427201516.GJ26595@google.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20120427201516.GJ26595@google.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Fri, Apr 27, 2012 at 01:15:16PM -0700, Tejun Heo wrote: [..] > > IOW, looks like we need a mechanism to mark a blkcg dead (set in > > pre_destroy() call) and any submissions to blkcg after that should result > > in bio being divered to root group? > > Don't we already have that with css_tryget()? Ok, forgot about css_tryget(). Yes that should work. Thanks. Introduction of cgroup has made locking and lifetime rules little complicated. :-) Thanks Vivek