On Mon, Apr 7, 2008 at 10:39 PM, Nikanth Karthikesan <knikanth@xxxxxxx> wrote: > > Why not provide a interface to add subsystems at run-time instead? > Are there any reason for not letting a subsystem to be implemented as a > loadable module? IOW make cgroups usable by modules? > Having all the subsystems declared at compile time makes a lot of things (number of subsystems, size of css_set, etc) statically known, which makes the code clearer and more importantly eliminates a bunch of locking/synchronization overhead. It would be possible to make cgroups support dynamically-loaded subsystems, and in fact, some of the earliest cgroups patches did support this, for a predefined max number of subsystems. But it would introduce more complexity and overhead. I'd rather not add support for this without a strong case of a subsystem that really needs to be dynamically loaded. Paul _______________________________________________ Containers mailing list Containers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.linux-foundation.org/mailman/listinfo/containers
