Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] cgroup: Add a hint to allow v1 controller to use v2 behavior
From: Waiman Long
Date: Thu Aug 17 2017 - 14:56:10 EST
On 08/17/2017 02:48 PM, Tejun Heo wrote:
> Hello, Waiman.
>
> On Thu, Aug 17, 2017 at 02:25:38PM -0400, Waiman Long wrote:
>> For some cgroup controllers, the behavior on cgroup v1 differs somewhat
>> from cgroup v2. To indicate that a controller can use v2 behavior
>> in cgroup v1, a new cgroupfs mount option "v2_mode" is added. This
>> is essentially a hint, there is no obligation for a controller to
>> comply with this semantics.
> Heh, I don't think we can make it a generic flag. We can't have one
> kernel interpreting the option one way and later kernels doing
> differently. Let's just make it cpuset specific - something like
> cpuset_v2_mode.
>
> Thanks.
>
That is fine for me. I will update the patchset accordingly.
Thanks,
Longman