On Sun 04-08-13 12:07:21, Tejun Heo wrote: > Hello, Hi Tejun, > Like many other things in cgroup, cgroup_event is way too flexible and > complex - it strives to provide completely flexible event monitoring > facility in cgroup proper which allows any number of users to monitor > custom events. This is overboard, to say the least, Could you be more specific about what is so "overboard" about this interface? I am not familiar with internals much, so I cannot judge the complexity part, but I thought that eventfd was intended for this kind of kernel->userspace notifications. > and I strongly think that cgroup should not any new usages of this > facility and preferably deprecate the existing usages if at all > possible. So you think that vmpressure, oom notification or thresholds are an abuse of this interface? What would you consider a reasonable replacement for those notifications? Or do you think that controller shouldn't be signaling any conditions to the userspace at all? [...] -- Michal Hocko SUSE Labs -- 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
