linux-kernel - Re: [ckrm-tech] [PATCH 0/2] resource control file system

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Date:	Fri, 9 Mar 2007 23:49:08 +0530
From:	Srivatsa Vaddagiri <vatsa@...ibm.com>
To:	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>,
	Paul Menage <menage@...gle.com>,
	ckrm-tech@...ts.sourceforge.net, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	xemul@...ru, pj@....com, winget@...gle.com,
	containers@...ts.osdl.org, akpm@...ux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: [ckrm-tech] [PATCH 0/2] resource control file system - aka containers on top of nsproxy!

On Fri, Mar 09, 2007 at 01:53:57AM +0100, Herbert Poetzl wrote:
> > The real trick is that I believe these groupings are designed to
> > be something you can setup on login and then not be able to switch
> > out of. Which means we can't use sessions and process groups as the
> > grouping entities as those have different semantics.
> 
> precisely, once you are inside a resource container, you
> must not have the ability to modify its limits, and to
> some degree, you should not know about the actual available
> resources, but only about the artificial limits

>From non-container workload management perspective, we do desire dynamic
manipulation of limits associated with a group and also the ability to move 
tasks across resource-classes/groups.

-- 
Regards,
vatsa
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