[Devel] Re: [RFC] Default child of a cgroup

[Vivek Goyal]

On Thu, Jan 31, 2008 at 08:10:49AM +0530, Srivatsa Vaddagiri wrote:
> Hi,
> 	As we were implementing multiple-hierarchy support for CPU
> controller, we hit some oddities in its implementation, partly related
> to current cgroups implementation. Peter and I have been debating on the 
> exact solution and I thought of bringing that discussion to lkml.
> 
> Consider the cgroup filesystem structure for managing cpu resource.
> 
> 	# mount -t cgroup -ocpu,cpuacct none /cgroup
> 	# mkdir /cgroup/A
> 	# mkdir /cgroup/B
> 	# mkdir /cgroup/A/a1
> 
> will result in:
> 
> 	/cgroup
> 	   |------<tasks>
> 	   |------<cpuacct.usage>
>  	   |------<cpu.shares>
> 	   |
> 	   |----[A]
> 	   |     |----<tasks>
> 	   |     |----<cpuacct.usage>
> 	   |     |----<cpu.shares>
> 	   |     |
> 	   |     |---[a1]
> 	   |           |----<tasks>
> 	   |   	       |----<cpuacct.usage>
> 	   |           |----<cpu.shares>
> 	   |           |
> 	   |
> 	   |----[B]
> 	   |     |----<tasks>
> 	   |     |----<cpuacct.usage>
> 	   |     |----<cpu.shares>
> 	   |     
> 
> 
> Here are some questions that arise in this picture:
> 
> 1. What is the relationship of the task-group in A/tasks with the
>    task-group in A/a1/tasks? In otherwords do they form siblings
>    of the same parent A?
> 

Vatsa,

I don't know much about cgroups but got a query. How do we handle this if we
just go one level up? How do we define relationship between /cgroup/tasks and
/cgroup/A/tasks, or /cgroup/tasks and /cgroup/B/tasks?

To me lower levels should be handeled in the same way.

Thanks
Vivek
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