Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 13 Sep 2016 15:27:14 +0200 (CEST) | From | Thomas Gleixner <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH v2 06/33] Documentation, x86: Documentation for Intel resource allocation user interface |
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On Sun, 11 Sep 2016, Shaohua Li wrote: > On Sat, Sep 10, 2016 at 12:36:57AM +0000, Yu, Fenghua wrote: > > One way to implement this is we can extend the current interface to accept > > a resctrl file system mount parameter to switch b/w "procs" and "tasks" during > > mount time. So the file sytem has either "procs" or "tasks" during run time. I don't think it's right to have both of them at the same time in the file system. > > A mount option doesn't make sense, which just creates more trouble. What's > wrong to have both of 'procs' and 'tasks' at the same time, like cgroup? I > think it's more natural to support both. As for the content of 'procs' and > 'tasks', we could follow how cgroup handle them.
Right. There is nothing wrong with having both, but the very first step is to get the basic infrastructure merged. Adding 'procs' is a straight forward add on which can be implemented on top of the primary patch set. There is no design change required to support it later.
Thanks,
tglx
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