linux-kernel - Re: [Devel] Re: BC: resource beancounters (v2)

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Message-ID: <44F32AC7.1090604@openvz.org>
Date:	Mon, 28 Aug 2006 21:41:27 +0400
From:	Kir Kolyshkin <kir@...nvz.org>
To:	rohitseth@...gle.com, devel@...nvz.org
CC:	Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>, Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>,
	Rik van Riel <riel@...hat.com>, Andi Kleen <ak@...e.de>,
	Chandra Seetharaman <sekharan@...ibm.com>,
	Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>,
	Andrey Savochkin <saw@...ru>,
	Matt Helsley <matthltc@...ibm.com>,
	Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...sign.ru>
Subject: Re: [Devel] Re: BC: resource beancounters (v2)

Rohit Seth wrote:
> On Sat, 2006-08-26 at 17:37 +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
>   
>> Ar Gwe, 2006-08-25 am 19:15 -0700, ysgrifennodd Rohit Seth:
>>     
>>> Yes, sharing of pages across different containers/managers will be a
>>> problem.  Why not just disallow that scenario (that is what fake nodes
>>> proposal would also end up doing).
>>>       
>> Because it destroys the entire point of using containers instead of
>> something like Xen - which is sharing. Also at the point I am using
>> beancounters per user I don't want glibc per use, libX11 per use glib
>> per use gtk per user etc..
>>
>>
>>     
>
> I'm not saying per use glibc etc.  That will indeed be useless and bring
> it to virtualization world.  Just like fake node, one should be allowed
> to use pages that are already in  (for example) page cache- so that you
> don't end up duplicating all shared stuff.  But as far as charging is
> concerned, charge it to container who either got the page in page cache
> OR if FS based semantics exist then charge it to the container where the
> file belongs.  What I was suggesting is to not charge a page to
> different counters.
>   

Consider the following simple scenario: there are 50 containers 
(numbered, say, 1 to 50) all sharing a single installation of Fedora 
Core 5. They all run sshd, apache, syslogd, crond and some other stuff 
like that. This is actually quite a real scenario.

In the world that you propose the container which was unlucky to start 
first (probably the one with ID of either 1 or 50) will be charged for 
all the memory, and all the
others will have most of their memory for free. And in such a world 
per-container memory accounting or limiting is just not possible.
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