Re: [PATCH][RESEND] cgroup, docs: document the root cgroup behavior of cpu and io controllers

From: Tejun Heo
Date: Mon Jan 08 2018 - 07:15:18 EST


Hello,

On Thu, Jan 04, 2018 at 10:57:00PM +0100, Maciej S. Szmigiero wrote:
> Currently, cgroups v2 documentation contains only a generic remark that
> "How resource consumption in the root cgroup is governed is up to each
> controller", which isn't really telling users much, who need to dig in the
> code and / or commit messages to learn the exact behavior.

I don't think we want to fully guarantee the current behavior. On the
scheduler side, I don't think it's likely to change but blkio side
*might* change. Can you please collect the root behavior in a separte
section and clearly note that the behaviors are subject to change?

Thanks.

--
tejun