[Devel] Re: [PATCH v4 1/2] cgroups: read-write lock CLONE_THREAD forking per threadgroup

[KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki]

On Fri, 6 Aug 2010 02:02:24 -0400
Ben Blum <bblum at andrew.cmu.edu> wrote:

> On Tue, Aug 03, 2010 at 09:34:22PM -0700, Paul Menage wrote:
> > On Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 9:33 PM, Ben Blum <bblum at andrew.cmu.edu> wrote:
> > >> As far as the #ifdef mess goes, it's true that some people don't have
> > >> CONFIG_CGROUPS defined. I'd imagine that these are likely to be
> > >> embedded systems with a fairly small number of processes and threads
> > >> per process. Are there really any such platforms where the cost of a
> > >> single extra rwsem per process is going to make a difference either in
> > >> terms of memory or lock contention? I think you should consider making
> > >> these additions unconditional.
> > >
> > > That's certainly an option, but I think it would be clean enough to put
> > > static inline functions just under the signal_struct definition.
> > 
> > Either sounds fine to me. I suspect others have a stronger opinion.
> > 
> > Paul
> > 
> 
> Any other votes? One set of static inline functions (I'd call them
> threadgroup_fork_{read,write}_{un,}lock) or just remove the ifdefs
> entirely? I'm inclined to go with the former.
> 

I vote for the former. #ifdef can be easily removed if someone finds it useful
for other purpose...and static inline function is usual way.

Thanks,
-Kame

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