Re: [RFC v2 2/2] cgroup: sev: Miscellaneous cgroup documentation.

From: Vipin Sharma <vipinsh@google.com>
To: Jacob Pan <jacob.jun.pan@intel.com>
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Subject: Re: [RFC v2 2/2] cgroup: sev: Miscellaneous cgroup documentation.
Date: Fri, 12 Mar 2021 13:15:14 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <YEvZ4muXqiSScQ8i@google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210312125821.22d9bfca@jacob-builder>

On Fri, Mar 12, 2021 at 12:58:21PM -0800, Jacob Pan wrote:
> Hi Vipin & Tejun,
> 
> Sorry for the late reply, I sent from a different email address than I
> intended. Please see my comments inline.
> 
> 
> On Thu, 4 Mar 2021 03:51:16 -0500, Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> wrote:
> 
> > Hello,
> > 
> > On Wed, Mar 03, 2021 at 10:22:03PM -0800, Vipin Sharma wrote:
> > > > I am trying to see if IOASIDs cgroup can also fit in this misc
> > > > controller as yet another resource type.
> > > > https://lore.kernel.org/linux-iommu/20210303131726.7a8cb169@jacob-builder/T/#u
> > > > However, unlike sev IOASIDs need to be migrated if the process is
> > > > moved to another cgroup. i.e. charge the destination and uncharge the
> > > > source.
> > > > 
> > > > Do you think this behavior can be achieved by differentiating resource
> > > > types? i.e. add attach callbacks for certain types. Having a single
> > > > misc interface seems cleaner than creating another controller.  
> > > 
> > > I think it makes sense to add support for migration for the resources
> > > which need it. Resources like SEV, SEV-ES will not participate in
> > > migration and won't stop can_attach() to succeed, other resources which
> > > need migration will allow or stop based on their limits and capacity in
> > > the destination.  
> > 
> Sounds good. Perhaps some capability/feature flags for each resource such
> that different behavior can be accommodated?
> Could you please include me in your future posting? I will rebase on yours.

Hi Jacob

Based on Tejun's response, I will not add charge migration support in
misc controller.

I can definitly add you in my future posting, if you still wanna use it
without charge migration support.

Thanks
Vipin