On 11/1/06, Matt Helsley <[email protected]> wrote:
On Wed, 2006-11-01 at 23:42 +0530, Srivatsa Vaddagiri wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 01, 2006 at 12:30:13PM +0300, Pavel Emelianov wrote:
<snip>
> > > - Support movement of all threads of a process from one group
> > > to another atomically?
> >
> > I propose such a solution: if a user asks to move /proc/<pid>
> > then move the whole task with threads.
> > If user asks to move /proc/<pid>/task/<tid> then move just
> > a single thread.
> >
> > What do you think?
>
> Isnt /proc/<pid> listed also in /proc/<pid>/task/<tid>?
>
> For ex:
>
> # ls /proc/2906/task
> 2906 2907 2908 2909
>
> 2906 is the main thread which created the remaining threads.
>
> This would lead to an ambiguity when user does something like below:
>
> echo 2906 > /some_res_file_system/some_new_group
>
> Is he intending to move just the main thread, 2906, to the new group or
> all the threads? It could be either.
>
> This needs some more thought ...
I thought the idea was to take in a proc path instead of a single
number. You could then distinguish between the whole thread group and
individual threads by parsing the string. You'd move a single thread if
you find both the tgid and the tid. If you only get a tgid you'd move
the whole thread group. So:
<pid> -> if it's a thread group leader move the whole
thread group, otherwise just move the thread
/proc/<tgid> -> move the whole thread group
/proc/<tgid>/task/<tid> -> move the thread
Alternatives that come to mind are:
1. Read a flag with the pid
2. Use a special file which expects only thread groups as input
I think that having a "tasks" file and a "threads" file in each
container directory would be a clean way to handle it:
"tasks" : read/write complete process members
"threads" : read/write individual thread members
Paul
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