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Date:   Thu, 25 Aug 2022 17:17:09 -1000
From:   Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
To:     Lu Jialin <lujialin4@huawei.com>
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Subject: Re: [RFC 0/2] Introduce cgroup.top interface
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Hello,

On Fri, Aug 26, 2022 at 09:15:01AM +0800, Lu Jialin wrote:
> Cgroup is used to organize and manage resource available processes.
> Currently there are no handy tool for gathering reousrce usage
> information for each and every child cgroups, makes it hard to detect
> resource outage and debug resource issues.
> 
> To overcome this, we present the cgroup.top interface. Just like the
> top command, user is able to easily gather resource usage information
> , allowing user to detect and respond to resource outage in child
> cgroups

I don't think this is something we want build into the kernel. Maybe what
you want is something similar to below?

  https://github.com/facebookincubator/below

Thanks.

-- 
tejun