Re: [PATCHv3 1/3] rdmacg: Added rdma cgroup controller.
From: Tejun Heo
Date: Fri Feb 12 2016 - 11:45:44 EST
Hello, Parav.
On Fri, Feb 12, 2016 at 02:49:38AM +0530, Parav Pandit wrote:
> 1. Removed two type of resource pool, made is single type (as you
> described in past comment)
> 2. Removed match tokens and have array definition like "qp", "mr", "cq" etc.
> 3. Wrote small parser and avoided match_token API as that won't work
> due to different array definition
> 4. Removed one-off remove API to unconfigure cgroup, instead all
> resource should be set to max.
> 5. Removed resource pool type (user/default), instead having max_num_cnt,
> when ref_cnt drops to zero and max_num_cnt = total_rescource_cnt, pool is freed.
> 6. Resource definition ownership is now only with IB stack at single
> header file, no longer in each low level driver.
> This goes through IB maintainer and other reviewers eyes.
> This continue to give flexibility to not force kernel upgrade for few
> enums additions for new resource type.
> 7. Wherever possible pool lock is pushed out, except for hierarchical
> charging/unchanging points, as it not possible to do so, due to
> iterative process involves blocking allocations of rpool. Coming up
> more levels up to release locks doesn't make any sense either.
> This is anyway slow path where rpool is not allocated. Except for
> typical first resource allocation, this is less traveled path.
> 8.Other minor cleanups.
> 9. Avoided %d manipulation due to removal of match_token and replaced
> with seq_putc etc friend functions.
Sounds great. Can't tell too much without looking at the code tho.
Thanks.
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tejun