Re: [PATCHSET] mempool, percpu, blkcg: fix percpu stat allocationand remove stats_lock

[Tejun Heo]

On Thu, Mar 08, 2012 at 10:08:33AM -0800, Tejun Heo wrote:
> It's probably from something forgetting to put cgroup and pre_destroy
> waiting for it.  Such bugs would have been masked before but now show
> up as stalls during rmdir.  I'm not too happy with how cgroup is
> handling cgroup file additions and removals and hoping to implement
> proper 'sever' semantics similar to that of sysfs.  In the longer
> term, such behavior should go away but for now we'll just have to hunt
> down the actual bug to avoid stalls (which we have to do anyway but
> it's more visible now).

Hmm... I'll probably need it for dynamic file additions and removals
for dynamic policy updates && the blkcg changes are scheduled for
3.5-rc1 window (not 3.4-rc1), so we should have enough time to resolve
this.

Thanks.

-- 
tejun
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