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authorPaul Menage <menage@google.com>2008-04-04 14:29:57 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2008-04-04 14:46:26 -0700
commit8bab8dded67d026c39367bbd5e27d2f6c556c38e (patch)
treed80f8f85f1da496c56bfa8575f0b59eba7c2ef55 /include
parent3a143125ddc4e2e0ca1e67fb4bedd45c36e59cc7 (diff)
cgroups: add cgroup support for enabling controllers at boot time
The effects of cgroup_disable=foo are: - foo isn't auto-mounted if you mount all cgroups in a single hierarchy - foo isn't visible as an individually mountable subsystem As a result there will only ever be one call to foo->create(), at init time; all processes will stay in this group, and the group will never be mounted on a visible hierarchy. Any additional effects (e.g. not allocating metadata) are up to the foo subsystem. This doesn't handle early_init subsystems (their "disabled" bit isn't set be, but it could easily be extended to do so if any of the early_init systems wanted it - I think it would just involve some nastier parameter processing since it would occur before the command-line argument parser had been run. Hugh said: Ballpark figures, I'm trying to get this question out rather than processing the exact numbers: CONFIG_CGROUP_MEM_RES_CTLR adds 15% overhead to the affected paths, booting with cgroup_disable=memory cuts that back to 1% overhead (due to slightly bigger struct page). I'm no expert on distros, they may have no interest whatever in CONFIG_CGROUP_MEM_RES_CTLR=y; and the rest of us can easily build with or without it, or apply the cgroup_disable=memory patches. Unix bench's execl test result on x86_64 was == just after boot without mounting any cgroup fs.== mem_cgorup=off : Execl Throughput 43.0 3150.1 732.6 mem_cgroup=on : Execl Throughput 43.0 2932.6 682.0 == [lizf@cn.fujitsu.com: fix boot option parsing] Signed-off-by: Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Paul Menage <menage@google.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Cc: Sudhir Kumar <skumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: YAMAMOTO Takashi <yamamoto@valinux.co.jp> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'include')
-rw-r--r--include/linux/cgroup.h1
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/cgroup.h b/include/linux/cgroup.h
index 028ba3b523b..a6a6035a4e1 100644
--- a/include/linux/cgroup.h
+++ b/include/linux/cgroup.h
@@ -256,6 +256,7 @@ struct cgroup_subsys {
void (*bind)(struct cgroup_subsys *ss, struct cgroup *root);
int subsys_id;
int active;
+ int disabled;
int early_init;
#define MAX_CGROUP_TYPE_NAMELEN 32
const char *name;