Another daemon for managing control groups [LWN.net]

Another daemon for managing control groups

Posted Dec 5, 2013 22:53 UTC (Thu) by drag (guest, #31333)
In reply to: Another daemon for managing control groups by jspaleta
Parent article: Another daemon for managing control groups

I tried to read the thread and it seems like Tim never explained exactly why they can't do what they want with a single hierarchical structure and Tejun never explained in a understandable way the exact reasons why they cannot maintain a multi-hierarchical interface.

Although you are right that systemd has absolutely nothing to do with it. They'd have the same problem regardless of what method they use to manage cgroups.

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Another daemon for managing control groups

Posted Dec 5, 2013 23:23 UTC (Thu) by jspaleta (subscriber, #50639) [Link]

Indeed,

I actually think it was surprising at how quickly systemd spun up a working manager interface. Tejun started this particular ball rolling in Feb/March 2012. LWN covered it. I think a lot of people, who should have been aware of Tejun's plans, just assumed it would take more time for anyone to spin up a working manager implementation for the saner cgroups interface he's spinning up.

The fact systemd that did it this quickly, I think speaks volumes.

The fact that everyone else sat on their hands for a year+ after Tejun's decision also speaks volumes.

Tejun is serious about cleaning up the lawless wild west. I'm not sure enough people took him seriously until systemd landed its public implementation. But really, a year later after Tejun stated his firm intention to move forward and you want to finally start to engage and push back? Meh.

-jef