Re: [RFC][PATCH 0/2] Android style loosening of cgroup attach permissions

[John Stultz]

On Thu, Jun 4, 2015 at 11:36 AM, Johannes Weiner <hannes@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 04, 2015 at 10:11:17AM -0700, John Stultz wrote:
>> On Tue, Jun 2, 2015 at 10:50 PM, Tejun Heo <tj@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> > memcg usage came up a while ago and there wasn't anything major which
>> > can't be achieved (usually better) by following more standard cgroup
>> > usage - changing knobs rather than moving tasks around.
>>
>> Do you have a pointer to that discussion or maybe even just a sense of
>> who was involved so I can trawl the list and better understand it?
>
> I wrote a lengthy explanation of why moving tasks between cgroups is
> problematic from a memcg view: https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/12/19/358

And many thanks for the discussion pointer here! Its very enlightening!
thanks
-john
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