Re: [PATCH v2] misc_cgroup: use a counter to count the number of failures

[Michal Koutný]

Hello.

On Sat, Aug 14, 2021 at 08:15:16AM +0800, brookxu <brookxu.cn@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 1. If a large number of containers are created and deleted,
>    there will be a lot of error logs.
> 2. According to an error log, we cannot better understand
>    the actual pressure of resources.
> 
> Therefore, perhaps we should use a failcnt counter to count
> the number of failures, so that we can easily understand the
> actual pressure of resources and avoid too many error log..

This is an understandable use case and generally the implementation via
the counter is good as well.

However, the non-hierarchical failcnt interface looks like v1ism to me
(I think new features should come with v2 first in mind).
What about exposing this in misc.events file with max.$res_name entries? 

Or if the hierarchical reporting is unnecessary now, there can be just
misc.events.local for starters.

(That reminds me the forgotten pids.events[.local] rework [1], oops.)

Michal

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