[systemd-devel] Where did DefaultControllers= option go?

Umut Tezduyar umut at tezduyar.com
Tue Oct 29 19:07:05 CET 2013


On Tue, Oct 29, 2013 at 6:56 PM, Kay Sievers <kay at vrfy.org> wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 29, 2013 at 6:45 PM, Umut Tezduyar <umut at tezduyar.com> wrote:
>
>>> The global mirroring across trees makes no sense in the future. The
>>> several independent trees will go away in the kernel next year, and
>>> then systemd would not know what to do with an instruction like
>>> DefaultControllers.
>>
>> I don't disagree that mirroring will not make sense in the future.
>> Though, without global mirroring on cpuacct I don't understand how
>> systemd-cgtop is expected to give cpu accounting information of
>> individual services. Also without global mirroring on cpu control
>> group, how would CPUShares=weight even work on any service. I am just
>> confused.
>
> The kernel will only have one single hierarchy, all properties will be
> located in this single tree.

Thats great but all in the future as you are also saying.

>
> Cgtop just reads the stuff from the controller *attributes* there,
> instead of finding them in a separate controller *tree*.

Actually, cgtop just reads the stuff from the cpuacct controller's
hierarchy as of today and thats why it is not working for me.

Thank you for your email but I think my confusion still remains.

Umut

>
> Kay


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