Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 29 Dec 2011 10:50:06 +0800 | From | Li Zefan <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] cgroup: fix to allow mounting a hierarchy by name |
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Tejun Heo wrote: > Hello, Li. > > On Wed, Dec 28, 2011 at 02:10:42PM +0800, Li Zefan wrote: >> The "name" option was introduced along with the "none" option, so we >> can distinguish between different cgroup hierarchies which have no >> bound subsystems, like this: >> >> # mount -t cgroup -o none,name=hier1 xxx /cgroup1 >> # mount -t cgroup -o none,name=hier2 xxx /cgroup2 >> >> As the name is unique, we have this "mount by hierarchy name" feature. > > I could be missing something but does that add anything other than > naming convenience? >
The name option is necessary, otherwise how can we mount hierarchies as shown in the above example?
>> It looks reasonable, but I guess few people know this feature. We can >> live with it, as it only saves us some typing when mounting an existing >> hierarchy. On the other hand, removing this small feature can hardly >> result in code reduction. > > If it's a redundant feature which has been broken over a year without > anyone complaining, it really doesn't need to exist. It might not > save a lot of code but would save some WTH moments. >
The redundant feature is mouting existing hierarchies by specifying name only, and the cleanup patch I sent has this feature removed in effect.
kernel/cgroup.c | 15 +++++++-------- 1 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
This is why I'm not so keen to remove the feature.
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