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Date:   Wed, 3 Mar 2021 22:22:03 -0800
From:   Vipin Sharma <vipinsh@google.com>
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Subject: Re: [RFC v2 2/2] cgroup: sev: Miscellaneous cgroup documentation.
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On Wed, Mar 03, 2021 at 06:55:13PM -0800, Jacob Pan wrote:
> Hi Vipin,
> 
> On Tue,  2 Mar 2021 00:17:05 -0800, Vipin Sharma <vipinsh@google.com> wrote:
> 
> > +Migration and Ownership
> > +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> > +
> > +A miscellaneous scalar resource is charged to the cgroup in which it is
> > used +first, and stays charged to that cgroup until that resource is
> > freed. Migrating +a process to a different cgroup does not move the
> > charge to the destination +cgroup where the process has moved.
> > +
> 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.