Re: [PATCH] introduce task cgroup v2

Peter Zijlstra
2008-06-16T07:04:53Z

On Mon, 2008-06-16 at 15:59 +0900, KOSAKI Motohiro wrote:
> Hi Peter,
>
> > > # mount -t cgroup -o task none /dev/cgroup
> > > # mkdir /dev/cgroup/foo
> > > # cd /dev/cgroup/foo
> > > # ls
> > > notify_on_release task.max_tasks task.nr_tasks tasks
> > > # echo 100 > task.max_tasks
> > > # echo $$ > tasks
> > > # fork_bomb 1000 & <- try create 1000 process
> > > # pgrep fork_bomb | wc -l
> > > 98
> >
> > fwiw I think the name sucks!
> > cgroups are about grouping tasks, so what's a task cgroup?
>
> Sorry, my english skill is very low.
> I hope restrict number of tasks.
>
> Do you have any name idea?

Sadly I suck at naming too ;-(

perhaps task_limit controller, or nr_tasks controller.

We should preferably pick one that transfers to most other rlimit like
controls.