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cgroups: ability to stop res charge propagation on bounded ancestor
authorFrederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Wed, 5 Oct 2011 00:43:47 +0000 (11:43 +1100)
committerStephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Thu, 13 Oct 2011 06:49:56 +0000 (17:49 +1100)
commit5ba2d032b41ffa004da7a45bf35ef11679797ef7
tree602f0cb642ab2c1d4fb5c34c6eb04741d8821495
parent0e4cff807a531232b127948dbd08e6047e9d4b98
cgroups: ability to stop res charge propagation on bounded ancestor

Moving a task from a cgroup to another may require to substract its
resource charge from the old cgroup and add it to the new one.

For this to happen, the uncharge/charge propagation can just stop when we
reach the common ancestor for the two cgroups.  Further the performance
reasons, we also want to avoid to temporarily overload the common
ancestors with a non-accurate resource counter usage if we charge first
the new cgroup and uncharge the old one thereafter.  This is going to be a
requirement for the coming max number of task subsystem.

To solve this, provide a pair of new API that can charge/uncharge a
resource counter until we reach a given ancestor.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Paul Menage <paul@paulmenage.org>
Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Aditya Kali <adityakali@google.com>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Cc: Tim Hockin <thockin@hockin.org>
Cc: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill@shutemov.name>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@google.com>
Documentation/cgroups/resource_counter.txt
include/linux/res_counter.h
kernel/res_counter.c