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SubjectRe: [PATCH 1/1] block, bfq: delete "bfq" prefix from cgroup filenames
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> Il giorno 8 apr 2019, alle ore 17:08, Johannes Thumshirn <jthumshirn@suse.de> ha scritto:
>
> On Mon, Apr 08, 2019 at 09:05:19AM -0600, Jens Axboe wrote:
>> I did consider that, and that would be doable. But honestly, I'm having a
>> hard time seeing what issue we are attempting to fix by doing this.
>
> Yeah, I guess the real fix would be to update the documentation and the
> expectations user-space has. Including eventual re-write of some udev rules or
> whatever is facing these files. But to me that sounds more like a systemd or
> even distro thing than a kernel thing.
>

Unfortunately the user-space people I have interacted with find crazy
to have to change their software to call bfq.weight the weight of a
group. And are not willing to do it [1].

Thanks,
Paolo

[1] https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/7057

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