[0/1] [patch -mm] Add containerstats (v3)

Paul Menage menage at google.com
Sat Jun 9 00:09:55 PDT 2007


On 6/8/07, Andrew Morton <akpm at linux-foundation.org> wrote:
> On Fri, 08 Jun 2007 23:43:46 +0530
> Balbir Singh <balbir at linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:
>
> > This patch implements per container statistics infrastructure and re-uses
> > code from the taskstats interface.
>
> boggle.
>
> Symbol: CONTAINERS [=y]
>   Selected by: CONTAINER_DEBUG || CPUSETS && SMP || CONTAINER_CPUACCT
>
> Paul, that's just bizarre.  How come it was done this way?

Containers on their own without any subsystems aren't hugely useful.
So the plan was that any container subsystem would "select CONTAINERS"
to cause the container framework to be built. I'm happy to change it
to invert the dependencies if you'd prefer.

Paul


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