From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail143.messagelabs.com (mail143.messagelabs.com [216.82.254.35]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 99F808D0042 for ; Tue, 22 Feb 2011 18:27:33 -0500 (EST) Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2011 16:27:29 -0700 From: Jonathan Corbet Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/5] page_cgroup: make page tracking available for blkio Message-ID: <20110222162729.054fe596@bike.lwn.net> In-Reply-To: <20110222230146.GB23723@linux.develer.com> References: <1298394776-9957-1-git-send-email-arighi@develer.com> <1298394776-9957-4-git-send-email-arighi@develer.com> <20110222130145.37cb151e@bike.lwn.net> <20110222230146.GB23723@linux.develer.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: To: Andrea Righi Cc: Vivek Goyal , Balbir Singh , Daisuke Nishimura , KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki , Greg Thelen , Wu Fengguang , Gui Jianfeng , Ryo Tsuruta , Hirokazu Takahashi , Jens Axboe , Andrew Morton , containers@lists.linux-foundation.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, 23 Feb 2011 00:01:47 +0100 Andrea Righi wrote: > > My immediate observation is that you're not really tracking the "owner" > > here - you're tracking an opaque 16-bit token known only to the block > > controller in a field which - if changed by anybody other than the block > > controller - will lead to mayhem in the block controller. I think it > > might be clearer - and safer - to say "blkcg" or some such instead of > > "owner" here. > > Basically the idea here was to be as generic as possible and make this > feature potentially available also to other subsystems, so that cgroup > subsystems may represent whatever they want with the 16-bit token. > However, no more than a single subsystem may be able to use this feature > at the same time. That makes me nervous; it can't really be used that way unless we want to say that certain controllers are fundamentally incompatible and can't be allowed to play together. For whatever my $0.02 are worth (given the state of the US dollar, that's not a whole lot), I'd suggest keeping the current mechanism, but make it clear that it belongs to your controller. If and when another controller comes along with a need for similar functionality, somebody can worry about making it more general. jon -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Fight unfair telecom internet charges in Canada: sign http://stopthemeter.ca/ Don't email: email@kvack.org