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From: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
To: Paul Menage <menage@google.com>
Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org, containers@lists.linux-foundation.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Update documentation of cgroups tasks and procs files
Date: Thu, 24 Sep 2009 08:43:19 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4ABAC0A7.3050307@cn.fujitsu.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090924001249.4783.91619.stgit@menage.mtv.corp.google.com>

Paul Menage wrote:
> Update documentation of cgroups tasks and procs files
> 
> Document the cgroup.procs file.
> 
> Clarify the semantics of the cgroup.procs and tasks files.  Although
> the current cgroup.procs interface returns a sorted and uniqified list
> of pids, potential future performance enhancements could result in
> those properties being removed - explicitly document this aspect of
> the API.
> 
> There are no existing users of cgroup.procs, so compatibility isn't an
> issue.  There are users of the "tasks" file, but none that would
> appear to break in the event of the sorted property being broken. The
> standard "libcpuset" explicitly sorts the results of reading from the
> tasks file, and "libcg" and other users don't appear to care about
> ordering.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Paul Menage <menage@google.com>
> 

Reviewed-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>

      reply	other threads:[~2009-09-24  0:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-09-24  0:12 [PATCH] Update documentation of cgroups tasks and procs files Paul Menage
2009-09-24  0:43 ` Li Zefan [this message]

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