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Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2008 19:36:36 -0700
From: "Paul Menage" <menage@google.com>
To: "Max Krasnyansky" <maxk@qualcomm.com>
Subject: Re: boot cgroup questions
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On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 7:34 PM, Max Krasnyansky <maxk@qualcomm.com> wrote:
>
>  Suppose we were to do it from kernel. What's the right way to create a cgroup
>  without mounting a cgroupfs ?

There isn't really a way, but you could always kern_mount() a
filesystem inside the kernel.

>  I just want to play with it. There are a couple of advantages that I see for
>  doing it from kernel. We can move 'kthreadd' and idle threads into the 'boot'
>  cgroup early on and therefor later on won't even have to iterate through the
>  tasks and stuff.

Would this be done based on some boot commandline option? I don't
think you'd want to do it unconditionally.

Paul