Re: [IGT PATCH RFC] tools: Introduce intel_cgroup tool

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Hello,

Forgot to respond to one point.

On Thu, Feb 01, 2018 at 03:14:38PM -0800, Matt Roper wrote:
>  * The drivers that want to make use of this functionality may be built
>    as modules rather than compiled directly into the kernel.  This is
>    important because the cgroups subsystem removed the ability to have
>    cgroup controllers in modules a few years ago.  While it might be
>    possible to resurrect module-based cgroup controller support, my
>    impression is that the cgroups community would prefer a separate
>    non-controller mechanism for doing what we want to do.  E.g., see
>    https://www.spinics.net/lists/cgroups/msg18674.html for some brief
>    discussion on this topic.

So, this isn't a concern.  If we need to have modular controllers, we
can resurrect module support, hopefully in a simpler way, or could do
something similar to what rdma controller did.  We shouldn't make
userland interface decisions based on this sort of implementation
details.

Thanks.

-- 
tejun
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