Re: [PATCH 2/2] CFS CGroup: Report usage

From: Paul Menage
Date: Tue Oct 23 2007 - 03:22:21 EST


On 10/22/07, Paul Menage <menage@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Using cgroup_mutex is certainly possible for now, although more
> heavy-weight than I'd like long term. Using css_get isn't the right
> approach, I think - we shouldn't be able to cause an rmdir to fail due
> to a concurrent read.
>

OK, the obvious solution is to use the same approach for subsystem
state objects as we do for the struct cgroup itself - move the calls
to the subsystem destroy methods to cgroup_diput. A control file
dentry will keep alive the parent dir's dentry, which will keep alive
the cgroup and (with this change) the subsystem state objects too.

The only potential drawback that I can see is that an open fd on a
cgroup directory or a control file will keep more memory alive than it
would have done previously.

Paul
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