Thanks for digging up the kernel code Jie! Its fascinating.

> Will that cause potential problems if there are more than 1 process in 'R'
> because the kill is not atomic.
>
>
Also, I don't understand what you mean here? Could you elaborate?


Vinod


> - Jie
>
> On Fri, Sep 21, 2012 at 9:10 PM, Benjamin Hindman <[email protected]>wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> > On Sept. 21, 2012, 7 p.m., Vinod Kone wrote:
>> > > lgtm. i've a feeling we need to also do a force kill. but we can do
>> this after we see how brian's test pans out.
>>
>> I tried just setting FREEZING to the cgroup freezer.state manually and
>> that didn't seem to work. Meanwhile, I sent a SIGKILL to the process in the
>> cgroup still in R, and that got everything to cleanup. So I expect that
>> you're correct, and we'll also need to send explicit SIGKILLs to those
>> processes still in R (in fact, probably just to all processes still in the
>> cgroup). Review incoming.
>>
>>
>> - Benjamin
>>
>>
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>>
>> On Sept. 21, 2012, 2:02 a.m., Benjamin Hindman wrote:
>> >
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>> > https://reviews.apache.org/r/7203/
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>> >
>> > (Updated Sept. 21, 2012, 2:02 a.m.)
>>
>> >
>> >
>> > Review request for mesos, Vinod Kone, Brian Wickman, and Jie Yu.
>> >
>> >
>> > Description
>> > -------
>>
>> >
>> > See summary and
>> http://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/cgroups/freezer-subsystem.txt:
>> >
>> > It's important to note that freezing can be incomplete. In that case we
>> return
>> > EBUSY. This means that some tasks in the cgroup are busy doing
>> something that
>> > prevents us from completely freezing the cgroup at this time. After
>> EBUSY,
>> > the cgroup will remain partially frozen -- reflected by freezer.state
>> reporting
>> > "FREEZING" when read. The state will remain "FREEZING" until one of
>> these
>> > things happens:
>> >
>> >       1) Userspace cancels the freezing operation by writing "THAWED" to
>> >               the freezer.state file
>> >       2) Userspace retries the freezing operation by writing "FROZEN" to
>> >               the freezer.state file (writing "FREEZING" is not legal
>> >               and returns EINVAL)
>> >       3) The tasks that blocked the cgroup from entering the "FROZEN"
>> >               state disappear from the cgroup's set of tasks.
>> >
>> >
>> > Diffs
>> > -----
>> >
>> >   src/linux/cgroups.cpp 4efd06e
>> >
>> > Diff: https://reviews.apache.org/r/7203/diff/
>> >
>> >
>> > Testing
>> > -------
>> >
>> >
>> > Thanks,
>> >
>> > Benjamin Hindman
>> >
>> >
>>
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