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From: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
To: Paul Menage <menage@google.com>
Cc: "akpm >> Andrew Morton" <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	containers@lists.linux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 7/7] cgroups: Update documentation for bindable subsystems
Date: Mon, 08 Nov 2010 13:27:54 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4CD78A5A.30309@cn.fujitsu.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTinbtLkF=haFeDkzecEWv_FE9jG4TefiptSnZcPi@mail.gmail.com>

Paul Menage wrote:
>>  Called when a cgroup subsystem is rebound to a different hierarchy
>> -and root cgroup. Currently this will only involve movement between
>> -the default hierarchy (which never has sub-cgroups) and a hierarchy
>> -that is being created/destroyed (and hence has no sub-cgroups).
>> +and root cgroup. For some subsystems this will only involve movement
>> +between the default hierarchy (which never has sub-cgroups) and a
>> +hierarchy that is being created/destroyed (and hence has no sub-cgroups).
>> +For some other subsystems this can involve movement between the default
>> +hierarchy and a mounted hierarchy which may have sub-cgroups in it.
> 
> This is a bit vague. How about:
> 
> For non-bindable subsystems, this will  only involve movement
> between the default hierarchy (which never has sub-cgroups) and a
> hierarchy that is being created/destroyed (and hence has no sub-cgroups).
> 
> For binadable subsystems, this may also involve movement between the
> default hierarchy and a mounted hierarchy that's populated with
> sub-cgroups.
> 
> Also, the docs should mention that a cgroup setting the can_bind flag
> has to be able to support side-effect free movement of a task into any
> just-created cgroup, and into the root cgroup at any time. i.e. it's
> not suitable for any subsystem where can_attach() might return false
> for the root cgroup or a newly-created cgroup, or attach() might have
> side-effects for those same cases.
> 
> Actually, perhaps we should forbid the combination of having both an
> attach() callback and can_bind=true ?
> 
> Also, post_clone() doesn't get called when creating the css hierarchy
> during binding.
> 

This is much better. :)

Documentation often causes my headache due to my limited English skill.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2010-11-08  5:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 38+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-10-22  8:09 [PATCH 0/7] cgroups: Allow to bind/unbind subsystems to/from non-trival hierarchy Li Zefan
2010-10-22  8:09 ` [PATCH 1/7] cgroups: Shrink struct cgroup_subsys Li Zefan
2010-10-28 23:34   ` Paul Menage
2010-11-08  5:23     ` Li Zefan
2010-11-09 21:05       ` Paul Menage
2010-11-10  0:52         ` Li Zefan
2010-11-10  1:53           ` Paul Menage
2010-11-10  2:06             ` Li Zefan
2010-11-10  2:15               ` Paul Menage
2010-10-22  8:09 ` [PATCH 2/7] cgroups: Allow to bind a subsystem to a cgroup hierarchy Li Zefan
2010-10-22 12:47   ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-10-25  0:59     ` Li Zefan
2010-10-22 21:38   ` Matt Helsley
2010-10-25  1:23     ` Li Zefan
2010-10-28 23:57     ` Paul Menage
2010-10-28 23:55   ` Paul Menage
2010-11-08  5:26     ` Li Zefan
2010-10-22  8:10 ` [PATCH 3/7] cgroups: Allow to unbind subsystem from a cgroup hierarachy Li Zefan
2010-10-29  0:02   ` Paul Menage
2010-10-22  8:11 ` [PATCH 4/7] cgroups: Mark some subsystems bindable Li Zefan
2010-10-22  8:11 ` [PATCH 5/7] cgroups: Make freezer subsystem bindable Li Zefan
2010-10-22 20:57   ` Matt Helsley
2010-10-22 21:46     ` Matt Helsley
2010-10-29  0:06       ` Paul Menage
2010-10-22 21:57     ` Matt Helsley
2010-10-25  1:15     ` Li Zefan
2010-10-22  8:12 ` [PATCH 6/7] cgroups: Warn if a bindable subsystem calls css_get() Li Zefan
2010-10-29  0:05   ` Paul Menage
2010-10-22  8:12 ` [PATCH 7/7] cgroups: Update documentation for bindable subsystems Li Zefan
2010-10-25  0:36   ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2010-10-25  0:52     ` Li Zefan
2010-10-25  0:56       ` Li Zefan
2010-10-29  0:13   ` Paul Menage
2010-10-29  0:15     ` Paul Menage
2010-11-08  5:27     ` Li Zefan [this message]
2010-10-22 12:50 ` [PATCH 0/7] cgroups: Allow to bind/unbind subsystems to/from non-trival hierarchy Peter Zijlstra
2010-10-25  1:07   ` Li Zefan
2010-10-28 23:33     ` Paul Menage

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