[Devel] Re: [ckrm-tech] [PATCH 7/7] containers (V7): Container interface to nsproxy subsystem

[Paul Menage]

On 4/4/07, Paul Menage <menage at google.com> wrote:
> The current code creates such arrays when it needs an atomic snapshot
> of the set of tasks in the container (e.g. for reporting them to
> userspace or updating the mempolicies of all the tasks in the case of
> cpusets). It may be possible to do it by traversing tasklist and
> dropping the lock to operate on each task where necessary - I'll take
> a look at that.

Just to clarify this - the cases that currently need an array of task
pointers *do* already traverse tasklist in order to locate those tasks
as needed - its when they want to be able to operate on those tasks
outside of the tasklist lock that the array is needed - lock
tasklist_lock, fill the array with tasks (with added refcounts), drop
tasklist_lock, do stuff.

Paul