Re: [PATCHSET] cpuset: decouple cpuset locking from cgroup core, take#2

2013-01-09 Thread Paul Menage
On Mon, Jan 7, 2013 at 5:31 PM, Li Zefan wrote: > > I don't think Paul's still maintaining cpusets. Normally it's Andrew > that picks up cpuset patches. It's fine you route it through cgroup > tree. Yes, I'm sorry - I should have handed on cpusets at the time I had to hand on cgroups. I was only

Re: [PATCH] Memory Resource Controller Add Boot Option

2008-02-26 Thread Paul Menage
On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 7:01 PM, Li Zefan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > - foo doesn't show up in /proc/cgroups > > Or we can print out the disable flag, maybe this will be better? > Because we can distinguish from disabled and not compiled in from > > /proc/cgroups. Certainly possible, if

Re: [PATCH 00/10] CGroup API files: Various cleanup to CGroup control files

2008-02-25 Thread Paul Menage
On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 7:23 PM, Li Zefan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Should those pathces be rebased againt 2.6.25-rc3 ? > No, because they're against 2.6.25-rc2-mm1, which is already has (I think) any of the new bits in 2.6.25-rc3 that would be affected by these patches. Paul -- To unsubscr

Re: [PATCH] Memory Resource Controller Add Boot Option

2008-02-25 Thread Paul Menage
I'll send out a prototype for comment. Something like the patch below. The effects of cgroup_disable=foo are: - foo doesn't show up in /proc/cgroups - foo isn't auto-mounted if you mount all cgroups in a single hierarchy - foo isn't visible as an individually mountable subsystem As a result th

Re: [PATCH] Memory Resource Controller Add Boot Option

2008-02-25 Thread Paul Menage
On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 9:18 AM, Balbir Singh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I thought about it, but it did not work out all that well. The reason being, > that the memory controller is called in from places besides cgroup. > mem_cgroup_charge_common() for example is called from several places i

Re: [PATCH] Memory Resource Controller Add Boot Option

2008-02-25 Thread Paul Menage
On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 3:55 AM, Balbir Singh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > A boot option for the memory controller was discussed on lkml. It is a good > idea to add it, since it saves memory for people who want to turn off the > memory controller. > > By default the option is on for the fol

Re: [PATCH] cgroup: fix default notify_on_release setting

2008-02-24 Thread Paul Menage
-by: Li Zefan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Acked-by: Paul Menage <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Yes, I guess it makes sense to follow the original cpusets behaviour. I think that got lost when the notify-on-release functionality was temporarily removed during cgroups development. > --- > kernel/c

Re: [PATCH 2/2] ResCounter: Use read_uint in memory controller

2008-02-23 Thread Paul Menage
On Sat, Feb 23, 2008 at 6:47 PM, Balbir Singh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> res_counter_read_u64() I'd also want to rename all the other > >> *read_uint functions/fields to *read_u64 too. Can I do that in a > >> separate patch? > >> > > > > Sounds sensible to me. > > > > Sure, fair enough

Re: [PATCH 3/8] sched: rt-group: interface

2008-02-23 Thread Paul Menage
On Sat, Feb 23, 2008 at 12:26 PM, Peter Zijlstra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > In that case I guess I'll have to add signed versions of the > > read_uint/write_uint methods. > > Yes, I looked at that, I found the interface somewhat unfortunate, it > would mean growing the struct with two mor

Re: [PATCH 3/8] sched: rt-group: interface

2008-02-23 Thread Paul Menage
On Sat, Feb 23, 2008 at 11:57 AM, Peter Zijlstra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > If so, could we avoid that problem by using 0 rather than -1 as the > > "unlimited" value? It looks from what I've read in the Documentation > > changes as though 0 isn't really a meaningful value. > > 0 means no ti

Re: [PATCH 3/8] sched: rt-group: interface

2008-02-23 Thread Paul Menage
On Mon, Feb 4, 2008 at 1:03 PM, Peter Zijlstra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > +static int cpu_rt_runtime_write(struct cgroup *cgrp, struct cftype *cft, > + struct file *file, > + const char __user *userbuf, > +

Re: [PATCH 2/2] Cpusets API: Update cpusets to use cgroup structured file API

2008-02-23 Thread Paul Menage
On Sat, Feb 23, 2008 at 12:06 AM, Andrew Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > It is unclear to me what the relationship is between this and your other > cgroup pseudo-fs changes, but as this is fiddling with a userspace > interface we should get a wiggle on - we don't want to let things like th

Re: [PATCH] cgroup: fix sparse warning of shadow symbol in cgroup.c

2008-02-23 Thread Paul Menage
parse warnings in cpuset.c > > Independently, Cliff Wickman moved the affected code, > from kernel/cpuset.c to kernel/cgroup.c, in his patch: > cpusets: update_cpumask revision > > Signed-off-by: Paul Jackson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Acked-by: Paul Menage <[EMAIL PROT

Re: [PATCH 1/2] cgroup map files: Add cgroup map data type

2008-02-23 Thread Paul Menage
On Sat, Feb 23, 2008 at 12:04 AM, Andrew Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > +static int cgroup_map_add(struct cgroup_map_cb *cb, const char *key, u64 > value) > > +{ > > + struct seq_file *sf = cb->state; > > + return seq_printf(sf, "%s %llu\n", key, value); > > +} > > We don't kn

Re: Tiny cpusets -- cpusets for small systems?

2008-02-23 Thread Paul Menage
On Sat, Feb 23, 2008 at 4:09 AM, Paul Jackson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > A couple of proposals have been made recently by people working Linux > on smaller systems, for improving realtime isolation and memory > pressure handling: > > (1) cpu isolation for hard(er) realtime > http://lkm

Re: [PATCH 2/2] ResCounter: Use read_uint in memory controller

2008-02-23 Thread Paul Menage
On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 8:29 PM, Balbir Singh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Looks good, except for the name uint(), can we make it u64(). Integers are 32 > bit on both ILP32 and LP64, but we really read/write 64 bit values. Yes, that's true. But read_uint() is more consistent with all the other

Re: [PATCH 2/7] cgroup: fix comments

2008-02-21 Thread Paul Menage
On Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 6:14 PM, Li Zefan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Paul Menage wrote: > > I think that docbook-style function comments need /** at the start of > > the comment block. > > > > Yes, I didn't notice it. I revised the patch to fix it. >

Re: [PATCH 7/7] cgroup: remove dead code in cgroup_get_rootdir()

2008-02-20 Thread Paul Menage
2008/2/17 Li Zefan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Acked-by: Paul Menage <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > --- > kernel/cgroup.c |1 - > 1 files changed, 0 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/kernel/cgroup.c b/kerne

Re: [PATCH 0/2] cgroup map files: Add a key/value map file type to cgroups

2008-02-19 Thread Paul Menage
On Feb 19, 2008 10:14 PM, YAMAMOTO Takashi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Feb 19, 2008 9:48 PM, YAMAMOTO Takashi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > it changes the format from "%s %lld" to "%s: %llu", right? > > > why? > > > > > > > The colon for consistency with maps in /proc. I think it als

Re: [PATCH 0/2] cgroup map files: Add a key/value map file type to cgroups

2008-02-19 Thread Paul Menage
On Feb 19, 2008 9:48 PM, YAMAMOTO Takashi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > it changes the format from "%s %lld" to "%s: %llu", right? > why? > The colon for consistency with maps in /proc. I think it also makes it slightly more readable. For %lld versus %llu - I think that cgroup resource APIs are

Re: [RFC][PATCH 1/7] CGroup API: Add cgroup.api control file

2008-02-19 Thread Paul Menage
On Feb 19, 2008 9:17 PM, Paul Jackson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Perhaps my primary concern with these *.api files was that I did not > understand who or what the critical use or user was; who found this > essential, not just nice to have. > Right now, no-one would find it essential. If/when a

[PATCH 2/2] Cpusets API: Update cpusets to use cgroup structured file API

2008-02-19 Thread Paul Menage
"u64" rather than "string" in the cgroup.api file. Signed-off-by: Paul Menage <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- kernel/cpuset.c | 156 +--- 1 file changed, 82 insertions(+), 74 deletions(-) Index: cpusets

[PATCH 1/2] Cpusets API: From: Paul Jackson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

2008-02-19 Thread Paul Menage
Strip all trailing whitespace in cgroup_write_uint This removes the need for people to remember to pass the -n flag to echo when writing values to cgroup control files. Signed-off-by: Paul Menage <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- kernel/cgroup.c |5 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 4 del

[PATCH 0/2] Cpusets API: Update Cpusets control files

2008-02-19 Thread Paul Menage
This pair of patches simplifies the cpusets read/write path for the control files that consist of simple integers. -- -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-in

Re: Improve init/Kconfig help descriptions [PATCH 6/9]

2008-02-19 Thread Paul Menage
On Feb 19, 2008 6:54 PM, Nick Andrew <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > config CGROUPS > bool "Control Group support" > help > Control Groups enables processes to be tracked and grouped > into "cgroups". This enables you, for example, to associate > cgroups

Re: [PATCH 1/7] cgroup: fix and update documentation

2008-02-19 Thread Paul Menage
On Feb 18, 2008 12:39 AM, Li Zefan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Misc fixes and updates, make the doc consistent with current > cgroup implementation. > > Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Acked-by: Paul Menage <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Thanks for these cleanups.

Re: [PATCH 4/7] cgroup: fix memory leak in cgroup_get_sb()

2008-02-19 Thread Paul Menage
On Feb 17, 2008 9:49 PM, Li Zefan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > opts.release_agent is not kfree()ed in all necessary places. > > Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Acked-by: Paul Menage <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Good catch, although hopefully something that would be

Re: [PATCH 6/7] cgroup: remove duplicate code in find_css_set()

2008-02-19 Thread Paul Menage
On Feb 17, 2008 9:49 PM, Li Zefan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The list head res->tasks gets initialized twice in find_css_set(). > > Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Acked-by: Paul Menage <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > --- > kernel/cgroup.c |1 - &g

Re: [PATCH 2/7] cgroup: fix comments

2008-02-19 Thread Paul Menage
On Feb 17, 2008 9:49 PM, Li Zefan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > fix: > - comments about need_forkexit_callback > - comments about release agent > - typo and comment style, etc. > > Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > --- > include/linux/cgroup.h |2 +- > kernel/cgroup.c| 44

Re: [PATCH 5/7] cgroup: fix subsys bitops

2008-02-19 Thread Paul Menage
On Feb 17, 2008 9:49 PM, Li Zefan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Cgroup uses unsigned long for subsys bitops, not unsigned long long. > > Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Acked-by: Paul Menage <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > --- > kernel/cgroup.c |4 ++--

Re: [PATCH 3/7] cgroup: clean up cgroup.h

2008-02-19 Thread Paul Menage
On Feb 17, 2008 9:49 PM, Li Zefan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > - replace old name 'cont' with 'cgrp' (Paul Menage did this cleanup for > cgroup.c in commit bd89aabc6761de1c35b154fe6f914a445d301510) > - remove a duplicate declaration of cgroup_path() > >

Re: [RFC][PATCH 1/7] CGroup API: Add cgroup.api control file

2008-02-19 Thread Paul Menage
On Feb 18, 2008 1:45 AM, Li Zefan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > But we don't have /proc/proc.api or /sys/sysfs.api ... True. And /proc is a bit of a mess. Having a similar API file for sysfs sounds like a good idea to me. > > And is it better to describe the debug subsystem too? > Yes, prob

Re: [RFC][PATCH 1/7] CGroup API: Add cgroup.api control file

2008-02-19 Thread Paul Menage
On Feb 19, 2008 1:57 PM, Paul Jackson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Finally, it goes against the one thingie per file (at most, one scalar > vector) that has worked well for us when tried. Right, I like the idea of keeping things simple. But if you're going to accept that a vector is useful, then

Re: Improve init/Kconfig help descriptions [PATCH 6/9]

2008-02-19 Thread Paul Menage
On Feb 19, 2008 7:12 AM, Nick Andrew <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > config CGROUPS > bool "Control Group support" > help > - This option will let you use process cgroup subsystems > - such as Cpusets > + Control Groups enables processes to be tracked and group

Re: [RFC][PATCH 7/7] CGroup API: Update cpusets to use cgroup structured file API

2008-02-17 Thread Paul Menage
On Feb 17, 2008 9:28 AM, Paul Jackson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I'm figuring it would be easiest if you just threw this > little change into your hopper for the bigger changes > you're making OK, will do. Paul -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the

Re: [RFC][PATCH 7/7] CGroup API: Update cpusets to use cgroup structured file API

2008-02-17 Thread Paul Menage
like a good idea to me. Thanks for this. > > Signed-off-by: Paul Jackson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: Paul Menage <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Acked-by: Paul Menage <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > --- > kernel/cgroup.c |5 + > 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 4 dele

Re: [RFC][PATCH 1/7] CGroup API: Add cgroup.api control file

2008-02-16 Thread Paul Menage
On Feb 16, 2008 2:07 AM, Balbir Singh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Paul Menage wrote: > > Hi, Paul, > > Do we need to use a cgroup.api file? Why not keep up to date documentation and > get users to use that. I fear that, cgroup.api will not be kept up-to-date, >

Re: [RFC][PATCH 0/7] CGroup API: More structured API for CGroups control files

2008-02-16 Thread Paul Menage
On Feb 16, 2008 1:31 AM, Li Zefan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I don't quite catch what you mean. Cgoup does support write-only/read-only > files. For a write-only file, just set .write and .write_uint to be NULL, > similar for a read-only file. > > Do I miss something? > I suppose we could infe

[RFC][PATCH 6/7] CGroup API: Use descriptions for memory controller API files

2008-02-15 Thread Paul Menage
This patch adds descriptions to the memory controller API files to indicate that the usage/limit are in bytes; the names of the control files can then be simplified to usage/limit. Also removes the unnecessary mem_force_empty_read() function Signed-off-by: Paul Menage <[EMAIL PROTEC

[RFC][PATCH 5/7] CGroup API: Use read_uint in memory controller

2008-02-15 Thread Paul Menage
Update the memory controller to use read_uint for its limit/usage/failcnt control files, calling the new res_counter_read_uint() function. This allows the files to show up as u64 rather than string in the cgroup.api file. Signed-off-by: Paul Menage <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- mm/memcontrol.c

[RFC][PATCH 1/7] CGroup API: Add cgroup.api control file

2008-02-15 Thread Paul Menage
ed control files. This will reduce the chance of future control files clashing with user-provided names. Signed-off-by: Paul Menage <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- include/linux/cgroup.h | 21 +++ kernel/cgroup.c| 133 ++--- 2 files changed

[RFC][PATCH 0/7] CGroup API: More structured API for CGroups control files

2008-02-15 Thread Paul Menage
This set of patches makes the Control Groups API more structured and self-describing. 1) Allows control files to be associated with data types such as "u64", "string", "map", etc. These types show up in a new cgroup.api file in each cgroup directory, along with a user-readable string. Files that

[RFC][PATCH 2/7] CGroup API: Add cgroup map data type

2008-02-15 Thread Paul Menage
Adds a new type of supported control file representation, a map from strings to u64 values. Signed-off-by: Paul Menage <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- include/linux/cgroup.h | 19 +++ kernel/cgroup.c| 61 - 2 files chang

[RFC][PATCH 3/7] CGroup API: Use cgroup map for memcontrol stats file

2008-02-15 Thread Paul Menage
Remove the seq_file boilerplate used to construct the memcontrol stats map, and instead use the new map representation for cgroup control files Signed-off-by: Paul Menage <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- mm/memcontrol.c | 30 ++ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 24 del

[RFC][PATCH 4/7] CGroup API: Add res_counter_read_uint()

2008-02-15 Thread Paul Menage
Adds a function for returning the value of a resource counter member, in a form suitable for use in a cgroup read_uint control file method. Signed-off-by: Paul Menage <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- include/linux/res_counter.h |1 + kernel/res_counter.c|5 + 2 files chan

[RFC][PATCH 7/7] CGroup API: Update cpusets to use cgroup structured file API

2008-02-15 Thread Paul Menage
"u64" rather than "string" in the cgroup.api file. Signed-off-by: Paul Menage <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- kernel/cpuset.c | 158 +--- 1 file changed, 83 insertions(+), 75 deletions(-) Index: cgrou

[PATCH] Add linux-fsdevel to VFS entry in MAINTAINERS

2008-02-14 Thread Paul Menage
Add linux-fsdevel to the VFS entry in MAINTAINERS Signed-off-by: Paul Menage <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- MAINTAINERS |1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) Index: 2.6.24-mm1-bindflags/MAINTAINERS === --- 2.6.24-mm1-bindflag

Re: [PATCH] Add MS_BIND_FLAGS mount flag

2008-02-14 Thread Paul Menage
On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 9:31 AM, Miklos Szeredi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I deliberately not used the MS_* flags, which is currently a messy mix > of things with totally different meanings. > > Does this solve all the issues? We should add a size parameter either in the mount_params or as

Re: [PATCH] Add MS_BIND_FLAGS mount flag

2008-02-14 Thread Paul Menage
On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 8:03 AM, Miklos Szeredi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > The "flags" argument could be the same as for regular mount, and > > contain the mnt_flags - so the extra argument could maybe usefully be > > a "mnt_flags_mask", to indicate which flags we actually care about > > ov

Re: [PATCH] Add MS_BIND_FLAGS mount flag

2008-02-14 Thread Paul Menage
[ cc: linux-fsdevel ] On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 7:22 AM, Paul Menage <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Feb 13, 2008 at 10:02 PM, Christoph Hellwig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > I think this concept is reasonable, but I don't think MS_BIND_FLAGS > >

Re: [PATCH] Add MS_BIND_FLAGS mount flag

2008-02-14 Thread Paul Menage
On Wed, Feb 13, 2008 at 10:02 PM, Christoph Hellwig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I think this concept is reasonable, but I don't think MS_BIND_FLAGS > is a descriptive name for this flag. MS_EXPLICIT_FLAGS might be better > but still isn't optimal. > MS_BIND_FLAGS_OVERRIDE ? Paul -- To unsu

Re: [PATCH] Add MS_BIND_FLAGS mount flag

2008-02-14 Thread Paul Menage
On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 12:30 AM, Miklos Szeredi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > For recursive bind mounts, only the root of the tree being bound > > inherits the per-mount flags from the mount() arguments; sub-mounts > > inherit their per-mount flags from the source tree as usual. > > This is r

[PATCH] Add MS_BIND_FLAGS mount flag

2008-02-12 Thread Paul Menage
From: Paul Menage <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Add a new mount() flag, MS_BIND_FLAGS. MS_BIND_FLAGS indicates that a bind mount should take its per-mount flags from the arguments passed to mount() rather than from the source mountpoint. This flag allows you to create a bind mount with the desir

Re: [PATCH][DOCUMENTATION] Minimal controller code for a quick start

2008-02-07 Thread Paul Menage
On Feb 7, 2008 12:28 PM, Peter Zijlstra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > While on the subject, could someone document struct cgroup_subsys. There's documentation for all the methods in Documentation/cgroup.txt > particular, I've wondered why we have: cgroup_subsys::can_attach() and > not use a retu

Re: [PATCH][DOCUMENTATION] Minimal controller code for a quick start

2008-02-07 Thread Paul Menage
On Feb 7, 2008 7:37 AM, Pavel Emelyanov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The Documentation/cgroups.txt file contains the info on how > to write some controller for cgroups subsystem, but even with > this, one need to write quite a lot of code before developing > the core (or copy-n-paste it from some o

Re: [RFC] Default child of a cgroup

2008-02-01 Thread Paul Menage
On Jan 31, 2008 11:58 PM, Peter Zijlstra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Is there a restriction in CFS that stops a given group from > > simultaneously holding tasks and sub-groups? If so, couldn't we change > > CFS to make it possible rather than enforcing awkward restrictions on > > cgroups? > > I

Re: [RFC] Default child of a cgroup

2008-01-31 Thread Paul Menage
On Jan 30, 2008 6:40 PM, Srivatsa Vaddagiri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Here are some questions that arise in this picture: > > 1. What is the relationship of the task-group in A/tasks with the >task-group in A/a1/tasks? In otherwords do they form siblings >of the same parent A? I'd arg

[PATCH] Update comments in cpuset.c

2008-01-29 Thread Paul Menage
Update comments in cpuset.c Some of the comments in kernel/cpuset.c were stale following the transition to control groups; this patch updates them to more closely match reality. Signed-off-by: Paul Menage <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Acked-by: Paul Jackson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- kernel/cpu

Re: [PATCH 5/12] Handle pid namespaces in cgroups code

2008-01-29 Thread Paul Menage
, i.e. > the pid as it is seen from inside a namespace. > > Tune the code accordingly. > > Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Acked-by: Paul Menage <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > --- > kernel/cgroup.c |4 ++-- > 1 files changed, 2 insertions(

Re: [RFC] [PATCH] cgroup: limit network bandwidth

2008-01-23 Thread Paul Menage
On Jan 23, 2008 8:48 AM, Andrea Righi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > 1. Implementation of soft limits (limit on contention of resource) > >gets harder > > Why? do you mean implementing a grace time when the soft-limit is > exceeded? this could be done in cgroup_nl_throttle() introducing 3 >

Re: [RFC] [PATCH] cgroup: limit network bandwidth

2008-01-23 Thread Paul Menage
An approach that we've been experimenting with at Google is much simpler: - add a "network class id" subsystem, that lets you associated an id with each cgroup - propagate this id to sockets created by that cgroup, and from there to packets sent/received on that socket - add a new traffic filter

Re: [PATCH] cgroup: limit block I/O bandwidth

2008-01-18 Thread Paul Menage
On Jan 18, 2008 7:36 AM, Dhaval Giani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, Jan 18, 2008 at 12:41:03PM +0100, Andrea Righi wrote: > > Allow to limit the block I/O bandwidth for specific process containers > > (cgroups) imposing additional delays on I/O requests for those processes > > that exceed th

Re: What can we do to get ready for memory controller merge in 2.6.25

2007-12-01 Thread Paul Menage
On Dec 1, 2007 10:36 AM, Rik van Riel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > With the /proc/refaults info, we can measure how much extra > memory each process group needs, if any. What's the status of that? It looks as though it would be better than the "accessed in the last N seconds" metric that we've b

Re: [PATCH] sched: cpu accounting controller (V2)

2007-11-30 Thread Paul Menage
Hi Vatsa, Thanks, this looks pretty good. On Nov 30, 2007 4:42 AM, Srivatsa Vaddagiri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > - Removed load average information. I felt it needs more thought (esp > to deal with SMP and virtualized platforms) and can be added for > 2.6.25 after

Re: What can we do to get ready for memory controller merge in 2.6.25

2007-11-30 Thread Paul Menage
On Nov 29, 2007 6:11 PM, Nick Piggin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > And also some > results or even anecdotes of where this is going to be used would be > interesting... We want to be able to run multiple isolated jobs on the same machine. So being able to limit how much memory each job can consume,

Re: Revert for cgroups CPU accounting subsystem patch

2007-11-13 Thread Paul Menage
On Nov 12, 2007 11:59 PM, Srivatsa Vaddagiri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Thinking of it more, this requirement to "group tasks for only accounting > purpose" may be required for other resources (mem, io, network etc) as well? > Should we have a generic accounting controller which can provide the

Re: Revert for cgroups CPU accounting subsystem patch

2007-11-12 Thread Paul Menage
On Nov 12, 2007 11:48 PM, Srivatsa Vaddagiri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Regarding your concern about tracking cpu usage in different ways, it > could be mitigated if we have cpuacct controller track usage as per > information present in a task's sched entity structure > (tsk->se.sum_exec_runtim

Re: Revert for cgroups CPU accounting subsystem patch

2007-11-12 Thread Paul Menage
On Nov 12, 2007 11:29 PM, Balbir Singh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I think it's a good hack, but not sure about the complexity to implement > the code. I worry that if the number of tasks increase (say run into > thousands for one or more groups and a few groups have just a few > tasks), we'll l

Re: Revert for cgroups CPU accounting subsystem patch

2007-11-12 Thread Paul Menage
On Nov 12, 2007 11:00 PM, Balbir Singh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Right now, one of the limitations of the CPU controller is that > the moment you create another control group, the bandwidth gets > divided by the default number of shares. We can't create groups > just for monitoring. Could we

Re: Revert for cgroups CPU accounting subsystem patch

2007-11-12 Thread Paul Menage
On Nov 12, 2007 10:00 PM, Srivatsa Vaddagiri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On second thoughts, this may be a usefull controller of its own. > Say I just want to "monitor" usage (for accounting purpose) of a group of > tasks, but don't want to control their cpu consumption, then cpuacct > con

Revert for cgroups CPU accounting subsystem patch

2007-11-12 Thread Paul Menage
Hi Linus, Please can you revert commit 62d0df64065e7c135d0002f069444fbdfc64768f, entitled "Task Control Groups: example CPU accounting subsystem" ? This was originally intended as a simple initial example of how to create a control groups subsystem; it wasn't intended for mainline, but I didn't m

Re: [PATCH] Improve cgroup printks

2007-11-12 Thread Paul Menage
file. > > > Signed-off-by: Diego Calleja <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (with the addition of akpm's KERN_INFO for cgroup_init_subsys() ) Acked-by: Paul Menage <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Paul - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the

[PATCH] Report usage in CFS cgroup

2007-10-29 Thread Paul Menage
Report CPU usage in CFS Cgroup directories Adds a cpu.usage file to the CFS cgroup that reports CPU usage in milliseconds for that cgroup's tasks Signed-off-by: Paul Menage <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- kernel/sched.c | 36 +++- 1 file changed, 31 inser

[PATCH] Report usage in CFS cgroup

2007-10-29 Thread Paul Menage
Report CPU usage in CFS Cgroup directories Adds a cpu.usage file to the CFS cgroup that reports CPU usage in milliseconds for that cgroup's tasks Signed-off-by: Paul Menage <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- kernel/sched.c | 36 +++- 1 file changed, 31 inser

[PATCH] Move cgroups destroy() callbacks to cgroup_diput()

2007-10-25 Thread Paul Menage
-by: Paul Menage <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- Documentation/cgroups.txt | 22 +++--- kernel/cgroup.c | 36 2 files changed, 35 insertions(+), 23 deletions(-) Index: container-2.6.23-mm1/kernel/cg

Re: [2.6 patch] kernel/cgroup.c: remove dead code

2007-10-25 Thread Paul Menage
On 10/25/07, Paul Jackson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Paul M wrote: > > Sounds reasonable to me. Is there any kind of compile-time assert > > macro in the kernel? > > Check out the assembly code generated by: > > BUG_ON(sizeof(cgrp->root->release_agent_path) < PATH_MAX)); > > (Hint: you can't

Re: [PATCH 2/2] CFS CGroup: Report usage

2007-10-25 Thread Paul Menage
On 10/23/07, Srivatsa Vaddagiri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > agreed, we need to be reporting idle time in (milli)seconds, although > the requirement we had was to report it back in percentage. I guess the > percentage figure can be derived from the raw idle time number. > > How about: > >

Re: [RFC] cgroup brace coding style fix

2007-10-25 Thread Paul Menage
I suppose it is the kernel standard. Acked-by: Paul Menage <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > --- > > This patch applies --after-- Adrian Bunk's patch: > [2.6 patch] kernel/cgroup.c: remove dead code > > kernel/cgroup.c | 15 +-- > 1 file changed, 5 inse

Re: [RFC] cgroup simplify space stripping

2007-10-25 Thread Paul Menage
On 10/24/07, Paul Jackson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > From: Paul Jackson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Simplify the space stripping code in cgroup file write. > > Signed-off-by: Paul Jackson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Acked-by: Paul Menage <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> &g

Re: [2.6 patch] kernel/cgroup.c: remove dead code

2007-10-25 Thread Paul Menage
On 10/24/07, Paul Jackson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Paul M wrote: > > I think I'd rather not make this change - if we later changed the size > > of release_agent_path[] this could silently fail. Can we get around > > the coverity checker somehow? > > Perhaps we can simplify this check then, to:

Re: [2.6 patch] kernel/cgroup.c: remove dead code

2007-10-24 Thread Paul Menage
On 10/24/07, Adrian Bunk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Two questions: > - Is it really intended to perhaps change release_agent_path[] to have > less than PATH_MAX size? I've got no intention to do so currently. > - If yes, do you want to return -E2BIG for (nbytes >= PATH_MAX) or for > (nbyt

Re: [2.6 patch] kernel/cgroup.c: make 2 functions static

2007-10-24 Thread Paul Menage
On 10/24/07, Adrian Bunk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > cgroup_is_releasable() and notify_on_release() should be static, > not global inline. > > Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Acked-by: Paul Menage <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > --- > > kernel

Re: [2.6 patch] kernel/cgroup.c: remove dead code

2007-10-24 Thread Paul Menage
I think I'd rather not make this change - if we later changed the size of release_agent_path[] this could silently fail. Can we get around the coverity checker somehow? Paul On 10/24/07, Adrian Bunk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This patch removes dead code spotted by the Coverity checker > (look

Re: [2.6 patch] kernel/cgroup.c: make 2 functions static

2007-10-24 Thread Paul Menage
On 10/24/07, Adrian Bunk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > cgroup_is_releasable() and notify_on_release() should be static, > not global inline. > They seem like they could be usefully static inline - or will the compiler inline them anyway since they're simple enough? Paul - To unsubscribe from this

[PATCH 1/2] CFS CGroup: Code cleanup

2007-10-23 Thread Paul Menage
Clean up some CFS CGroup code - replace "cont" with "cgrp" in a few places in the CFS cgroup code, - use write_uint rather than write for cpu.shares write function Signed-off-by: Paul Menage <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- This is a resend of yesterday's mail with t

Re: [PATCH 2/2] CFS CGroup: Report usage

2007-10-23 Thread Paul Menage
On 10/23/07, Srivatsa Vaddagiri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Suppose you have two cgroups that would each want to use, say, 55% of > > a CPU - technically they should each be regarded as having 45% idle > > time, but if they run on a the same CPU the chances are that they will > > both always hav

Re: [PATCH 9/12] cgroup: kill unused variable

2007-10-23 Thread Paul Menage
On 10/23/07, Jeff Garzik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Acked-by: Paul Menage <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > --- > > diff --git a/kernel/cgroup.c b/kernel/cgroup.c > index 5987dcc..3fe21e1 100644 > --- a/kernel/cgroup.c

Re: [PATCH 2/2] CFS CGroup: Report usage

2007-10-23 Thread Paul Menage
On 10/23/07, Srivatsa Vaddagiri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Adds a cpu.usage file to the CFS cgroup that reports CPU usage in > > milliseconds for that cgroup's tasks > > It would be nice to split this into user and sys time at some point. Sounds reasonable - but does CFS track this? > We have

[PATCH] Move cgroups destroy() callbacks to cgroup_diput()

2007-10-23 Thread Paul Menage
subsystem state objects alive until the file is closed. The documentation is updated to reflect the changed semantics of destroy(); additionally the locking comments for destroy() and some other methods were clarified and decrustified. Signed-off-by: Paul Menage <[EMAIL PROTEC

Re: [PATCH 2/2] CFS CGroup: Report usage

2007-10-23 Thread Paul Menage
On 10/23/07, Balbir Singh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Well, without notify_on_release you can never be sure if a new task > got added to the control group or if someone acquired a reference > to it. I can't think of a safe way of removing control groups/cpusets > without using notify_on_release.

Re: [PATCH 2/2] CFS CGroup: Report usage

2007-10-23 Thread Paul Menage
On 10/23/07, Balbir Singh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Well, most people who care about deletion will use the notify_on_release > callback and retry. I'm not convinced this is true. Certainly the userspace approaches we're developing at Google don't (currently) use notify_on_release. Paul - To

Re: [PATCH 1/2] CFS CGroup: Code cleanup

2007-10-23 Thread Paul Menage
On 10/22/07, Paul Menage <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 10/22/07, Srivatsa Vaddagiri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Minor nit: From pov of making this patch series git bisect safe, shouldn't > > we > > be registering a write_uint() handler in this

Re: [PATCH 2/2] CFS CGroup: Report usage

2007-10-23 Thread Paul Menage
On 10/22/07, Paul Menage <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Using cgroup_mutex is certainly possible for now, although more > heavy-weight than I'd like long term. Using css_get isn't the right > approach, I think - we shouldn't be able to cause an rmdir to fail due &

Re: [PATCH 1/2] CFS CGroup: Code cleanup

2007-10-22 Thread Paul Menage
On 10/22/07, Srivatsa Vaddagiri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Minor nit: From pov of making this patch series git bisect safe, shouldn't we > be registering a write_uint() handler in this patch as well? > Yes, we should. Sigh. I originally had the cleanup and the new reporting interface in the sa

Re: [PATCH -v2 4/7] RT overloaded runqueues accounting

2007-10-22 Thread Paul Menage
are held when cpuset_rt_set_overload() is called? > > Questions for Paul Menage: > > Does 'tsk' need to be locked for the above task_cs() call? Cgroups doesn't change the locking rules for accessing a cpuset from a task - you have to have one of: - task_lock(task) - callbac

Re: [PATCH 2/2] CFS CGroup: Report usage

2007-10-22 Thread Paul Menage
On 10/22/07, Balbir Singh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I think we also need the notion of load, like we have in cpu_acct.c Yes, a notion of load would be good - but the "load" calculated by cpu_acct.c isn't all that useful yet - it's just a total of the CPU cycles used in the 10 second time inte

Re: [PATCH 2/2] CFS CGroup: Report usage

2007-10-22 Thread Paul Menage
On 10/22/07, Srivatsa Vaddagiri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Oct 22, 2007 at 05:49:39PM -0700, Paul Menage wrote: > > +static u64 cpu_usage_read(struct cgroup *cgrp, struct cftype *cft) > > +{ > > + struct task_group *tg = cgroup_tg(cgrp); > > +

[PATCH 1/2] CFS CGroup: Code cleanup

2007-10-22 Thread Paul Menage
Clean up some CFS CGroup code - replace "cont" with "cgrp" in a few places in the CFS cgroup code, - use write_uint rather than write for cpu.shares write function Signed-off-by: Paul Menage <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- kernel/sched.c | 51 +--

[PATCH 2/2] CFS CGroup: Report usage

2007-10-22 Thread Paul Menage
Report CPU usage in CFS Cgroup directories Adds a cpu.usage file to the CFS cgroup that reports CPU usage in milliseconds for that cgroup's tasks This replaces the "example CPU Accounting CGroup subsystem" that was merged into mainline last week. Signed-off-by: Paul Menage &l

[PATCH 0/2] CFS CGroup: cleanup & usage reporting

2007-10-22 Thread Paul Menage
These two patches consist of a small cleanup to CFS, and adding a control file reporting CPU usage in milliseconds in each CGroup directory. They're just bundled together since the second patch depends slightly on the cleanups in the first patch. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line

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