Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] cgroups: Add an API to attach a task to current task's cgroup

From: Sridhar Samudrala <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 21 May 2010 08:09:14 -0700

On 5/20/2010 3:22 PM, Paul Menage wrote:
> On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 5:04 PM, Sridhar Samudrala
> <[email-masked]>  wrote:
>    
>> Add a new kernel API to attach a task to current task's cgroup
>> in all the active hierarchies.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Sridhar Samudrala<[email-masked]>
>>      
> Reviewed-by: Paul Menage<[email-masked]>
>
> It would be more efficient to just attach directly to current->cgroups
> rather than potentially creating/destroying one css_set for each
> hierarchy until we've completely converged on current->cgroups - but
> that would require a bunch of refactoring of the guts of
> cgroup_attach_task() to ensure that the right can_attach()/attach()
> callbacks are made. That doesn't really seem worthwhile right now for
> the initial use, that I imagine isn't going to be
> performance-sensitive.
>    
Yes. In our use-case, this will be called only once per guest interface 
when the guest comes up.
Hope you or someone more familiar with cgroups subsystem can optimize 
this function later.

Thanks
Sridhar