On Wed, Jan 06, 2010 at 04:04:14PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > On Thu, 31 Dec 2009 00:10:50 -0500 > Ben Blum <bblum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > This patch series implements support for building, loading, and > > unloading subsystems as modules, both within and outside the kernel > > source tree. It provides an interface cgroup_load_subsys() and > > cgroup_unload_subsys() which modular subsystems can use to register and > > depart during runtime. The net_cls classifier subsystem serves as the > > example for a subsystem which can be converted into a module using these > > changes. > > What is the value in this? What are the usage scenarios? Why does the > benefit of this change exceed the cost/risk/etc of merging it? As discussed in the first posting of these patches, this provides the ability for arbitrary subsystems to be used with cgroups.. cls_cgroup would have already been a module except for a lack of support from cgroups, and the change also allows other module-loadable classifiers to add subsystems of their own. _______________________________________________ Containers mailing list Containers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.linux-foundation.org/mailman/listinfo/containers
