linux-kernel - Re: [patch00/05]: Containers(V2)- Introduction

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Date:	Wed, 20 Sep 2006 16:33:51 -0700
From:	Rohit Seth <rohitseth@...gle.com>
To:	Christoph Lameter <clameter@....com>
Cc:	Paul Jackson <pj@....com>, ckrm-tech@...ts.sourceforge.net,
	devel@...nvz.org, npiggin@...e.de, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch00/05]: Containers(V2)- Introduction

On Wed, 2006-09-20 at 16:02 -0700, Christoph Lameter wrote:
> On Wed, 20 Sep 2006, Paul Jackson wrote:
> 
> > the kernel.  A useful memory containerization should (IMHO) allow for
> > both adding and removing such containers.
> 
> How does the containers implementation under discussion behave if a 
> process is part of a container and the container is removed?
> 

It first removes all the tasks belonging to this container (which means
resetting the container pointers in task_struct and then per page
container pointer belonging to anonymous pages).  It then clears the
container pointers in the mapping structure and also in the pages
belonging to these files.

-rohit

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