RFC: Backport cgroups v2 to 8u

[Severin Gehwolf]

On Fri, 2022-09-30 at 16:20 +0100, Andrew Hughes wrote:
> On 19:03 Wed 28 Sep     , Severin Gehwolf wrote:
> 
> snip...
> 
> > > 
> > > Do you plan to target these all to one particular release, or just
> > > when they happen to be integrated?
> > 
> > It'll depend on when PRs for them become available. We cannot integrate
> > them as we go along, as most of them are interrelated or fix bugs in
> > earlier versions. So the plan would be to integrate (the set of) them
> > for the January 2023 or April 2023 release whichever we can make.
> > 
> 
> So would it be worth doing this on a branch as we did with JFR? That
> might be easier to setup now we're using git as well, but I don't
> know how it would work with Skara.

We didn't need one for 11u, so my hope would be that we don't need one
for 8u.

> We could also just use dependent PRs and only push everything when
> it's all ready. That might be simpler.

Yes, dependent PRs worked fine for 11. It should work for 8u as well.
Your concern was about integration (reviews can happen at any time).
This would be controlled by the approval labels, so we have a mechanism
to control time of integration. That's my thinking.

Thanks,
Severin