Re: [RFC][PATCH 7/7] CGroup API: Update cpusets to use cgroup structuredfile API

From: Li Zefan
Date: Mon Feb 18 2008 - 04:57:10 EST


Paul Jackson wrote:
> Ok ... this would (I suspect, just from code reading, no bytes were
> harmed in actual testing of this) have a minor change to how white
> space is handled writing integer flags to cpuset files, and a minor
> inconstency.
>
> 1) Existing cpuset code lets you set a flag (e.g. cpu_exclusive) by doing:
> echo '1 rumplestiltskin' > cpu_exclusive # same as: echo 1 > cpu_exclusive
> With this patch, that probably fails, EINVAL.
>
> 2) With this patch, one can write "1" or "1\n" to cpuset integer files, but one
> cannot successfully write "1\r\n" or "1 " or "1 \n". However, for the cpuset
> control files that take strings, not single integers, one -can- have any mix
> of trailing white space.
>
> So far as I know, I have no requirement to write rumplestiltskin to cpuset files ;).
> So I'm content to let the minor change in (1) pass without further comment.
>
> I'd like to recommend consideration of the following patch, to address the
> minor inconsistency of (2), and to save a few bytes of kernel text space.
>

For memory controller, we have to do this:
echo -n 4m > memory.limit_in_bytes
'-n' is necessary. This is another inconsistency..
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