Re: [PATCH] introduce task cgroup v2

Li Zefan
2008-06-16T07:08:54Z

Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> 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.
>

We have memrlimit in -mm currently, which controls address space.