Re: [PATCH 0/1] block, bfq: remove bfq prefix from cgroups filenames

From: Paolo Valente
Date: Mon Sep 16 2019 - 10:56:11 EST


News of this change? Can we have it (or the solution with the
symlinks if you prefer it) for 5.4?

Thanks,
Paolo

> Il giorno 9 set 2019, alle ore 09:31, Paolo Valente <paolo.valente@xxxxxxxxxx> ha scritto:
>
> Hi Jens,
> now that BFQ's weight interface has been fixed [1], can we proceed
> with this change?
>
> In addition to acking this solution, in [2] Tejun already suggested a
> reduced version of the present patch. In Tejun's version, only
> bfq.weight is changed. But I guess that legacy code may use also some
> of the other bfq parameters in cgroups, without the bfq prefix. Apart
> from that, any version is ok for me, provided that it solves the
> current confusing situation for userspace [3].
>
> Thanks,
> Paolo
>
> [1] https://lkml.org/lkml/2019/8/27/1716
> [2] https://www.mail-archive.com/linux-block@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/msg35823.html
> [3] https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/7057
>
> Angelo Ruocco (1):
> block, bfq: delete "bfq" prefix from cgroup filenames
>
> block/bfq-cgroup.c | 46 +++++++++++++++++++++++-----------------------
> 1 file changed, 23 insertions(+), 23 deletions(-)
>
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> 2.20.1