linux-kernel - Re: [RFC][PATCH 0/7] Resource controllers based on process containers

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Date:	Tue, 6 Mar 2007 18:02:32 -0800
From:	"Paul Menage" <menage@...gle.com>
To:	"Pavel Emelianov" <xemul@...ru>
Cc:	"Andrew Morton" <akpm@...l.org>,
	"Srivatsa Vaddagiri" <vatsa@...ibm.com>,
	"Balbir Singh" <balbir@...ibm.com>, devel@...nvz.org,
	"Linux Kernel Mailing List" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	containers@...ts.osdl.org, "Kirill Korotaev" <dev@...ru>
Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH 0/7] Resource controllers based on process containers

On 3/6/07, Pavel Emelianov <xemul@...ru> wrote:
> 2. Extended containers may register themselves too late.
>    Kernel threads/helpers start forking, opening files
>    and touching pages much earlier. This patchset
>    workarounds this in not-so-cute manner and I'm waiting
>    for Paul's comments on this issue.
>

Can we not make sure that each subsystem registers itself before any
of its resources become usable? So the file counting subsystem should
register at some point before filp_open() becomes usable, and the
process counting subsystem should register before it's possible to
fork, etc.

Paul
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