Re: [PATCH] cgroup: Simplify code in css_set_move_task

[Haifeng Xu]

On 2022/10/31 21:11, Michal Koutný wrote:
> Hello.
> 
>> 1) If calls 'css_set_update_populated' , the cset is either getting the
>> first task or losing the last. There is a need to update the populated
>> state of the cset only when 'css_set_populated' returns false.
>> In other words, the last has been deleted from from_cset and the first
>> hasn't been added to to_cset yet.
> 
> I've likely misread the condition previously. I see how this works now
> (update happens after "from_cset" but before "to_cset" migration).
> 
>> 3) In order to update the populated state of to_cset the same way
>> from_cset does, 'css_set_update_populated' is also invoked during the
>> process of moving a task to to_cset.
> 
> As I think more about this in the context of vertical migrations
> (ancestor<->descendant, such as during controller dis- or enablement),
> I'm afraid the inverted order would lead to "spurious" emptiness
> notifications in ancestors (in the case a there is just a single task
> that migrates parent->child, parent/cgroup.populated would generate and
> event that'd be nullified by the subsequent population of the child).
Hi, Michal.

I understand your worries. Can I just check the populated state of
css_set in 'css_set_update_populated' and don't change the order any
more? I think it can also streamline 'css_set_move_task' a bit.

Thanks,
Hiafeng.
> 
> So I'm not sure the change is worth it.
> 
> Michal