[PATCH] cgroup: deprecate remount option changes mount option

Tejun Heo tj at kernel.org
Thu Mar 15 19:45:45 UTC 2012


Hello,

On Thu, Mar 15, 2012 at 08:36:35PM +0100, Lennart Poettering wrote:
> > * release_agent update by remount: release_agent itself will be
> >   replaced with conventional fsnotify notification.
> 
> Just wondering, what kind of event do you plan to emit if a cgroup runs
> empty? To userspace, with fanotify, will this be FAN_MODIFY? I'd very
> much prefer if we only get events really when a group runs empty, and
> not each time a PID is added/removed from a cgroup, which FAN_NOTIFY
> might suggest?

MODIFY probably is the only thing which makes sense and I don't think
we would be emitting events for every task addition/removals.  That
better fits MODIFY events on the tasks file anyway.

Thanks.

-- 
tejun


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