Re: [PATCH RESEND] cgroups: Allow dynamically changing net_classid

[Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>]

Hello,

On Fri, Nov 20, 2015 at 12:31:39PM -0800, Nina Schiff wrote:
> The classid of a process is changed either when a process is moved to
> or from a cgroup or when the net_cls.classid file is updated.
> Previously net_cls only supported propogating these changes to the
> cgroup's related sockets when a process was added or removed from the
> cgroup. This means it was neccessary to remove and re-add all processes
> to a cgroup in order to update its classid. This change introduces
> support for doing this dynamically - i.e. when the value is changed in
> the net_cls_classid file, this will also trigger an update to the
> classid associated with all sockets controlled by the cgroup.
> This mimics the behaviour of other cgroup subsystems.
> net_prio circumvents this issue by storing an index into a table with
> each socket (and so any updates to the table, don't require updating
> the value associated with the socket). net_cls, however, passes the
> socket the classid directly, and so this additional step is needed.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Nina Schiff <ninasc@fb.com>

Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>

This was broken from the beginning.  Thanks for fixing this.

BTW, this will cause a context conflict with the cgroup2 match
patches.  I'll update the patchset once this lands in net-next.

-- 
tejun