On Mon, Jul 26, 2010 at 11:39 AM, Balbir Singh
<[email protected]> wrote:
>>>> +       qsort(tmp_list, n, sizeof(pid_t), &pid_compare);
>>>
>>> Is there are reason we qsort here? I though the kernel already sorted
>>> the pids.. no?
>>>
>>
>> I have not seen a case where it is not sorted, but as per
>> documentation (Documentation/cgroups/cgroups.txt in the kernel)
>>
>>  - cgroup.procs: list of tgids in the cgroup.  This list is not
>>   guaranteed to be sorted or free of duplicate tgids, and userspace
>>   should sort/uniquify the list if this property is required.
>>   This is a read-only file, for now.
>
> The code in cgroup.c (pidlist_array_load) does
>
>        /* now sort & (if procs) strip out duplicates */
>        sort(array, length, sizeof(pid_t), cmppid, NULL);
>

Older kernel versions? :-)

Dhaval

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