On Tue, 3 Aug 2010 12:58:27 -0700 Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Fri, 30 Jul 2010 19:56:49 -0400 > Ben Blum <bblum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > This patch series implements a write function for the 'cgroup.procs' > > per-cgroup file, which enables atomic movement of multithreaded > > applications between cgroups. Writing the thread-ID of any thread in a > > threadgroup to a cgroup's procs file causes all threads in the group to > > be moved to that cgroup safely with respect to threads forking/exiting. > > (Possible usage scenario: If running a multithreaded build system that > > sucks up system resources, this lets you restrict it all at once into a > > new cgroup to keep it under control.) > > I can see how that would be useful. No comments from anyone else? > I think the feature itself is good and useful. I welcome this. > patch 1/2 makes me cry with all those ifdefs. Maybe helper functions > would help, but not a lot. > Add static inline functions ? > patch 2/2 looks very complicated. yes. that's a concern. I'd like to look deeper, today. Thanks, -Kame _______________________________________________ Containers mailing list Containers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.linux-foundation.org/mailman/listinfo/containers
