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SubjectRe: [PATCH REPOST RFC cgroup/for-3.7] cgroup: mark subsystems with broken hierarchy support and whine if cgroups are nested for them
On 2012/9/11 6:33, Tejun Heo wrote:
> (forgot cc'ing containers / cgroups mailing lists and used the old
> address for Li. Reposting. Sorry for the noise.)
>
> Currently, cgroup hierarchy support is a mess. cpu related subsystems
> behave correctly - configuration, accounting and control on a parent
> properly cover its children. blkio and freezer completely ignore
> hierarchy and treat all cgroups as if they're directly under the root
> cgroup. Others show yet different behaviors.
>
> These differing interpretations of cgroup hierarchy make using cgroup
> confusing and it impossible to co-mount controllers into the same
> hierarchy and obtain sane behavior.
>
> Eventually, we want full hierarchy support from all subsystems and
> probably a unified hierarchy. Users using separate hierarchies
> expecting completely different behaviors depending on the mounted
> subsystem is deterimental to making any progress on this front.
>
> This patch adds cgroup_subsys.broken_hierarchy and sets it to %true
> for controllers which are lacking in hierarchy support. The goal of
> this patch is two-fold.
>
> * Move users away from using hierarchy on currently non-hierarchical
> subsystems, so that implementing proper hierarchy support on those
> doesn't surprise them.
>
> * Keep track of which controllers are broken how and nudge the
> subsystems to implement proper hierarchy support.
>
> For now, start with a single warning message. We can whine louder
> later on.
>
> (I tried to document what's broken and how it should be fixed. If I
> got something wrong, please let me know.)
>

So isn't cpuset broken too? child cpuset's cpu mask isn't necessary a subset
of the parent's if the cpu_exclusive flag is not set.



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