Re: [PATCH 1/2] cgroup: pids: show number of failed forks since limit reset

[Tejun Heo]

Hello,

On Fri, Jun 24, 2016 at 01:00:48PM +1000, Aleksa Sarai wrote:
> This allows users to dynamically adjust their limits based on how many
> failed forks happened since they last reset their limits, otherwise they
> would have to track (in a racy way) how many limit failures there were
> since the last limit change manually. In addition, we log the first
> failure since the limit was reset (which was the original semantics of
> the patchset).

Isn't that trivially achievable by reading the counter and then
calculating the diff?  I don't think it matters all that much whether
the log message is printed once per cgroup or per config-change.  It's
just a hint for the admin to avoid setting her off on a wild goose
chase.

Thanks.

-- 
tejun