Re: [RFC PATCH 1/3] misc_cgroup: introduce misc.events and misc_events.local

[Tejun Heo]

Hello,

On Fri, Sep 10, 2021 at 12:33:06PM +0200, Michal Koutný wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 10, 2021 at 01:20:37PM +0800, brookxu <brookxu.cn@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Yeah, this is more reasonable. But there is still one question, whether we
> > need to be consistent with other cgroup subsystems, events and events.local
> > under v1 should not support hierarchy？
> 
> My take is that it's acceptable to present the v2-like files in v1 too
> for the sake of simplicity since:
> - this is not used yet,
> - the v1 is less conventional and
> - the presence of events.local would cater even to cases with tasks in
>   inner nodes.
> 
> It'd be good to have Tejun's insight on this too.

My general appraoch is

* If it's trivial both in terms of complexity and effort to add support for
  cgroup1, oh well, why not?

* Otherwise, don't bother.

* cgroup1 interface is wildly inconsistent anyway, so I wouldn't worry much
  about that.

Thanks.

-- 
tejun