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SubjectRe: + cgroups-forbid-noprefix-if-mounting-more-than-just-cpuset-subsystem. patch added to -mm tree
Dhaval Giani wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 02, 2009 at 09:08:04AM -0700, Paul Menage wrote:
>> On Tue, Jun 2, 2009 at 2:09 AM, Dhaval Giani <dhaval@linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:
>>> I am not sure if this is a good idea. For libcgroup, we would then be
>>> adding a special case for just cpuset. I would rather that we allow it
>>> either for all the subsystems or none of them.
>>>
>> libcgroup shouldn't be using the noprefix option. Its only intentded
>> use is to allow the legacy "cpuset" filesystem type to be mounted and
>> to see the same fileset as it had before the cgroups transition.
>>
>
> It does not. But if some user is using that option, we need to be in a
> position to handle it.
>
> I am quite happy not supporting the noprefix option in the library if it
> is fine.
>

I don't think we need to support noprefix in libcgroup.

Even if we decide to support noprefix in the lib, it shouldn't be harder
to handle noprefix+cpuset only than handle noprefix+any combination of
subsystems.




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