linux-kernel - Re: [RFC, PATCH 0/5] Going forward with Resource Management

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Message-Id: <1154684950.23655.178.camel@localhost.localdomain>
Date:	Fri, 04 Aug 2006 10:49:10 +0100
From:	Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>
Cc:	vatsa@...ibm.com, mingo@...e.hu, nickpiggin@...oo.com.au,
	sam@...ain.net, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, dev@...nvz.org,
	efault@....de, balbir@...ibm.com, sekharan@...ibm.com,
	nagar@...son.ibm.com, haveblue@...ibm.com, pj@....com
Subject: Re: [RFC, PATCH 0/5] Going forward with Resource Management - A
	cpu controller

Ar Iau, 2006-08-03 am 22:42 -0700, ysgrifennodd Andrew Morton:
> The downside to such a strategy is that there is a risk that nobody ever
> gets around to implementing useful controllers, so it ends up dead code. 
> I'd judge that the interest in resource management is such that the risk of
> this happening is low.

I think the risk is that OpenVZ has all the controls and resource
managers we need, while CKRM is still more research-ish. I find the
OpenVZ code much clearer, cleaner and complete at the moment, although
also much more conservative in its approach to solving problems.

Alan

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