Home » Mailing list archives » linux-kernel » 2008 » February » 21

[PATCH 0/2] cgroup map files: Add a key/value map file type to cgroups

!MAILaRCHIVE_VOTE_RePLACE
Previous message: [thread] [date] [author]
Next message: [thread] [date] [author]
[view in full thread]
From: <menage@...>
To: <kamezawa.hiroyu@...>, <yamamoto@...>, <akpm@...>
Cc: <linux-kernel@...>, <linux-mm@...>, <balbir@...>, <xemul@...>
Subject: [PATCH 0/2] cgroup map files: Add a key/value map file type to cgroups
Date: Thursday, February 21, 2008 - 5:28 pm

[ Updated from the previous version to remove the colon from the map output ]

These patches add a new cgroup control file output type - a map from
strings to u64 values - and make use of it for the memory controller
"stat" file.

It is intended for use when the subsystem wants to return a collection
of values that are related in some way, for which a separate control
file for each value would make the reporting unwieldy.

The advantages of this are:

- more standardized output from control files that report
similarly-structured data that needs to be parsed programmatically

- less boilerplate required in cgroup subsystems

- simplifies transition to a future efficient cgroups binary API

Signed-off-by: Paul Menage <menage@google.com>


--
--
Previous message: [thread] [date] [author]
Next message: [thread] [date] [author]
Messages in current thread:
[PATCH 0/2] cgroup map files: Add a key/value map file type ..., , (Thu Feb 21, 5:28 pm)
Re: [PATCH 0/2] cgroup map files: Add a key/value map file t..., Andrew Morton, (Sat Feb 23, 4:04 am)