linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 0/7] containers (V7): Generic Process Containers

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Message-ID: <45D0EC68.9090009@vilain.net>
Date:	Tue, 13 Feb 2007 11:38:32 +1300
From:	Sam Vilain <sam@...ain.net>
To:	menage@...gle.com
Cc:	akpm@...l.org, pj@....com, sekharan@...ibm.com, dev@...ru,
	xemul@...ru, serue@...ibm.com, vatsa@...ibm.com,
	ebiederm@...ssion.com, containers@...ts.osdl.org,
	winget@...gle.com, rohitseth@...gle.com,
	ckrm-tech@...ts.sourceforge.net, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/7] containers (V7): Generic Process Containers

menage@...gle.com wrote:
> Generic Process Containers
> --------------------------
>
> There have recently been various proposals floating around for
> resource management/accounting and other task grouping subsystems in
> the kernel, including ResGroups, User BeanCounters, NSProxy
> containers, and others.  These all need the basic abstraction of being
> able to group together multiple processes in an aggregate, in order to
> track/limit the resources permitted to those processes, or control
> other behaviour of the processes, and all implement this grouping in
> different ways.
>   

I know I'm a bit out of touch, but AIUI the NSProxy *is* the container. 
We decided a long time ago that a container was basically just a set of
namespaces, which includes all of the subsystems you mention.

This would suggesting re-write this patchset, part 2 as a "CPUSet
namespace", part 4 as a "CPU scheduling namespace", parts 5 and 6 as
"Resource Limits Namespace" (drop this "BeanCounter" brand), and of
course part 7 falls away.

Sam.
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