cgroups.7: Add some rationale for the existence of the "domain invalid" cgroup type

Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
This commit is contained in:
Michael Kerrisk 2018-01-10 05:34:54 +01:00
parent dc581e07a4
commit 6125483529
1 changed files with 8 additions and 0 deletions

View File

@ -1167,6 +1167,14 @@ cgroup by writing the string
to the
.I cgroup.type
file.
.IP
The rationale for the existence of this "interim" type
during the creation of a threaded subtree
(rather than the kernel simply immediately converting all cgroups
under the threaded root to the type
.IR threaded )
is to allow for
possible future extensions to the thread mode model
.\"
.SS Threaded versus domain controllers
With the addition of threads mode,