On Thu, Aug 01, 2013 at 05:49:53PM -0400, Tejun Heo wrote:
> cgroup is currently in the process of transitioning to using css
> (cgroup_subsys_state) as the primary handle instead of cgroup in
> subsystem API.  For hierarchy iterators, this is beneficial because
> 
> * In most cases, css is the only thing subsystems care about anyway.
> 
> * On the planned unified hierarchy, iterations for different
>   subsystems will need to skip over different subtrees of the
>   hierarchy depending on which subsystems are enabled on each cgroup.
>   Passing around css makes it unnecessary to explicitly specify the
>   subsystem in question as css is intersection between cgroup and
>   subsystem
> 
> * For the planned unified hierarchy, css's would need to be created
>   and destroyed dynamically independent from cgroup hierarchy.  Having
>   cgroup core manage css iteration makes enforcing deref rules a lot
>   easier.
> 
> Most subsystem conversions are straight-forward.  Noteworthy changes
> are
> 
> * blkio: cgroup_to_blkcg() is no longer used.  Removed.
> 
> * freezer: cgroup_freezer() is no longer used.  Removed.
> 
> * devices: cgroup_to_devcgroup() is no longer used.  Removed.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <t...@kernel.org>
> Cc: Li Zefan <lize...@huawei.com>
> Cc: Johannes Weiner <han...@cmpxchg.org>
> Cc: Michal Hocko <mho...@suse.cz>
> Cc: Balbir Singh <bsinghar...@gmail.com>
> Cc: Aristeu Rozanski <a...@redhat.com>
> Cc: Matt Helsley <matth...@us.ibm.com>
> Cc: Vivek Goyal <vgo...@redhat.com>
> Cc: Jens Axboe <ax...@kernel.dk>
> ---
>  block/blk-cgroup.c       |   8 +--
>  block/blk-cgroup.h       |  25 ++++-----
>  block/blk-throttle.c     |   8 +--

Block bits look good to me.

Acked-by: Vivek Goyal <vgo...@redhat.com>

Vivek
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