Paul Menage wrote: > On 10/23/07, Balbir Singh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Well, most people who care about deletion will use the notify_on_release >> callback and retry. > > I'm not convinced this is true. Certainly the userspace approaches > we're developing at Google don't (currently) use notify_on_release. > > Paul
Well, without notify_on_release you can never be sure if a new task got added to the control group or if someone acquired a reference to it. I can't think of a safe way of removing control groups/cpusets without using notify_on_release. -- Warm Regards, Balbir Singh Linux Technology Center IBM, ISTL - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/