[PATCH 09/11] drm, cgroup: Introduce lgpu as DRM cgroup resource
Johannes Weiner
hannes at cmpxchg.org
Wed Feb 19 16:21:25 UTC 2020
On Fri, Feb 14, 2020 at 03:28:40PM -0500, Kenny Ho wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 14, 2020 at 2:17 PM Tejun Heo <tj at kernel.org> wrote:
> > Also, a rather trivial high level question. Is drm a good controller
> > name given that other controller names are like cpu, memory, io?
>
> There was a discussion about naming early in the RFC (I believe
> RFCv2), the consensuses then was to use drmcg to align with the drm
> subsystem. I have no problem renaming it to gpucg or something
> similar if that is the last thing that's blocking acceptance. For
> now, I would like to get some clarity on the implementation before
> having more code churn.
As far as precedence goes, we named the other controllers after the
resources they control rather than the subsystem: cpu instead of
scheduler, memory instead of mm, io instead of block layer etc.
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