Hello, Glyn. On Thu, Apr 17, 2014 at 03:51:32PM +0100, Glyn Normington wrote: > >It's kinda useless to go through all the precise terms to re-define > >hierarchical grouping of tasks, which is both accurate and intuitive > >enough. Adding extra descriptions to clarify ambiguities and just to > >reinforce the concept would be fine but trying to build the concept > >from the ground is silly at best. Starting with something intuitive > >and refining it is a far better approach. > > I'm sorry you feel this way. A couple of us (full disclosure: both > mathematicians) tried hard to get a precise understanding of cgroups > from cgroups.txt, but several terms remained vague until we had done > some experiments and discussed our findings on the mailing list. > > The aim of the patch is to crisp up the definitions of those terms > for other newcomers, so they won't have to go through the same > exercise.
Oh, don't get me wrong. The current documentation is neither intuitive or precise. I have hard time understanding what it's saying, so probably even just increasing precision is an improvement. > Interestingly, after we had understood the terms, cgroups.txt seemed > much clearer than it did originally. But that's because we were > tending to read our new-found understanding into the text. Might you > not be doing the same? Sure thing. Please go ahead and improve it. It's not good at all in all fronts. > So, how would you like to proceed? You could reject the patch > outright if you think our experience is unrepresentative. Or, for > the benefit of other newcomers, we are willing to try reworking the > parts you find unreadable if you could kindly pick them out. The > choice is yours. :-) Again, I think it's an improvement but was just hoping you could add a bit more intuitive explanations so that it's more approchable. The two properties aren't mutually exclusive. > Thanks for the clarification. If you agree to proceed, we should be > able to find a simpler way to cover this paragraph. I really don't mind being verbose if it makes things clearer and easier to understand. Thanks! -- tejun -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
