To: menage@google.com
Cc: kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com, akpm@linux-foundation.org,
       linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, balbir@in.ibm.com,
       xemul@openvz.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] cgroup map files: Add a key/value map file type to
 cgroups
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 19 Feb 2008 21:15:44 -0800"
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From: yamamoto@valinux.co.jp (YAMAMOTO Takashi)
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> These patches add a new cgroup control file output type - a map from
> strings to u64 values - and make use of it for the memory controller
> "stat" file.
> 
> It is intended for use when the subsystem wants to return a collection
> of values that are related in some way, for which a separate control
> file for each value would make the reporting unwieldy.
> 
> The advantages of this are:
> 
> - more standardized output from control files that report
> similarly-structured data
> 
> - less boilerplate required in cgroup subsystems
> 
> - simplifies transition to a future efficient cgroups binary API
> 
> Signed-off-by: Paul Menage <menage@google.com>

it changes the format from "%s %lld" to "%s: %llu", right?
why?

YAMAMOTO Takashi
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