[PATCH] new cgroup controller "fork"

Glauber Costa glommer at parallels.com
Thu Nov 3 17:26:10 UTC 2011


On 11/03/2011 03:16 PM, Max Kellermann wrote:
> On 2011/11/03 17:43, Frederic Weisbecker<fweisbec at gmail.com>  wrote:
>> Please have a look at the task counter subsystem: https://lwn.net/Articles/461462/
>>
>> It's in the -mm tree. I'm glad to hear about another user who wants
>> this feature in cgroups. We need to hear about you and whether this
>> meets your requirements in order to get it merged upstream.
>
> Had a quick look at your patch set.  No, it does not seem to meet my
> requirements.  It limits the number of processes in a cgroup - that is
> also very useful, but is different from my controller.
>
How so?
If you never move tasks to a cgroup except at setup time - which is the 
common case for almost everybody, I imagine, you end up achieving the 
same thing.


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