Re: [PATCH 3/6] cgroup: introduce cgroup_taskset and use it insubsys->can_attach(), cancel_attach() and attach()

From: Paul Menage
Date: Thu Aug 25 2011 - 05:33:08 EST


On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 2:20 AM, Tejun Heo <tj@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> I think having separate ->attach() and ->attach_task() is inherently
> broken.  Look at the memcg discussion I had in this thread for
> reference and as soon as we need to do something across the tasks
> being migrated, iteration-by-callback becomes very painful.
> e.g. let's say memcg wants to find the mm->owner and wants to print
> warning or fail if that doesn't work out.  How would that be
> implemented if it's iterating by callback.

OK, fair point. See my other email for patch comments.

Paul
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