On Mon, Feb 15, 2016 at 03:14:05PM -0600, David Collins wrote: > This patch allows the cpu.stats values to be reset in cgroups without having to remove and recreate it. I wrote this patch because I've had use cases where resetting the counters made it much easier to read, and it may help with custom userland scripts when parsing statistics. > > Many other components of cgroups allows stats to be reset, such as cpuacct.stats. To reset the stats counters, simply `echo 0 > cpu.stats` Please don't do this. The right thing to do is to read accumluative values from userland and calculate the delta. Going forward, no other cgroup stat files are gonna support resetting. Nacked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@xxxxxxxxxx> Thanks. -- tejun -- 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
