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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
To: Parav Pandit <pandit.parav@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCHv12 1/3] rdmacg: Added rdma cgroup controller
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On Wed, Sep 07, 2016 at 01:25:13PM +0530, Parav Pandit wrote:
> >  a) delay cgroups support until the grand rewrite is done
> >  b) add it now and deal with the consequences later
> >
> Can we do (b) now and differ adding any HW resources to cgroup until
> they are clearly called out.
> Architecture and APIs are already in place to support this.

Sounds fine to me.  The only thing I want to avoid is pie in the
sky "future proofing" that leads to horrible architectures.  And I assume
that's what Matan proposed.