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cgroups: ability to stop res charge propagation on bounded ancestor
authorFrederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Mon, 24 Oct 2011 14:59:57 +0000 (01:59 +1100)
committerStephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Tue, 25 Oct 2011 09:08:14 +0000 (20:08 +1100)
commit67a5ef54d8622e0fd0cf5cc4d3796afcb0f22367
tree824c9bab30bad3db07c8aecf4bff54d4a44884e3
parent9b45cc2c206f5d66b60e5616f037cade6e7b7a5b
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@linux-foundation.org>
Documentation/cgroups/resource_counter.txt
include/linux/res_counter.h
kernel/res_counter.c