On 09/06/2012 04:06 PM, Michal Hocko wrote: > On Wed 05-09-12 13:12:38, Tejun Heo wrote: >> Hello, Michal. >> >> On Wed, Sep 05, 2012 at 04:49:42PM +0200, Michal Hocko wrote: >>> Can we settle on the following 3 steps? >>> 1) warn about "flat" hierarchies (give it X releases) - I will push it >>> to as many Suse code streams as possible (hope other distributions >>> could do the same) >> >> I think I'm just gonna trigger WARN from cgroup core if anyone tries >> to create hierarchy with a controller which doesn't support full >> hierarchy. WARN_ON_ONCE() at first and then WARN_ON() on each >> creation later on. > > How do you find out that a controller is not fully hierarchical? Memory > controller can be both. > >>> 2) flip the default on the root cgroup & warn when somebody tries to >>> change it to 0 (give it another X releases) that the knob will be >>> removed >>> 3) remove the knob and the whole nonsese >>> 4) revert 3 if somebody really objects >> >> If we can get to 3, I don't think 4 would be a problem. > > Agreed. > Just so I understand it: Michal clearly objected before folding his patch with my Kconfig patch. But is there still opposition to merge both? By having it default-n, only people that are either sure that this is safe for them, or have more clearly defined lifecycles could set it. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe cgroups" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
