| From: |
| menage@google.com |
| To: |
| kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com, akpm@linux-foundation.org |
| Subject: |
| [PATCH 0/2] cgroup map files: Add a key/value map file type to cgroups |
| Date: |
| Tue, 19 Feb 2008 21:15:44 -0800 |
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| <20080220051544.018684000@menage.corp.google.com> |
| Cc: |
| linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org,
balbir@in.ibm.com, xemul@openvz.org, yamamoto@valinux.co.jp |
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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
- less boilerplate required in cgroup subsystems
- simplifies transition to a future efficient cgroups binary API
Signed-off-by: Paul Menage <menage@google.com>
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