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cgroups: ability to stop res charge propagation on bounded ancestor
authorFrederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Wed, 16 Nov 2011 23:41:38 +0000 (10:41 +1100)
committerStephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Thu, 17 Nov 2011 02:57:16 +0000 (13:57 +1100)
commit419056c5de69384549e89ad51356205cbfb511ec
treed87208aca155e5b1c09a304dd04cffdb9fe4df2d
parent26cf966bfeb98dda1d254ac43fcfd29d12367cfd
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