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Message-Id: <1158795569.7207.23.camel@galaxy.corp.google.com>
Date:	Wed, 20 Sep 2006 16:39:29 -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 16:36 -0700, Christoph Lameter wrote:
> On Wed, 20 Sep 2006, Rohit Seth wrote:
> 
> > > 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.
> 
> So the application continues to run unharmed?
> 

It will hit a one time penalty of getting those pointers reset, but
besides that it will continue to run fine.

> Could we equip containers with restrictions on processors and nodes for 
> NUMA?
> 

Yes.  That is something we will have to do (I think part of CPU
handler-TBD).

-rohit

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