Re: [PATCH] misc_cgroup: use a counter to count the number of failures

From: Tejun Heo
Date: Fri Aug 13 2021 - 12:16:50 EST


Hello,

On Fri, Aug 13, 2021 at 01:26:11PM +0800, brookxu wrote:
> From: Chunguang Xu <brookxu@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> For a container, we only print an error log when the resource
> charge fails. There may be some problems here:
>
> 1. If a large number of containers are created and deleted,
> there will be a lot of error logs.
> 2. According to an error log, we cannot better understand
> the actual pressure of resources.
>
> Therefore, perhaps we should use a failcnt counter to count
> the number of failures, so that we can easily understand the
> actual pressure of resources and avoid too many error log..
>
> This is a partial patch of the previous serial, which may
> be useful, so I resend it.

I think this approach is fine but can you please

* Cc the original author of the misc cgroup who added the warning
messages.

* Rename failcnt to nr_fails?

Thanks.

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tejun