linux-kernel - Re: [ckrm-tech] [PATCH 0/2] resource control file system

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Message-ID: <20070312141144.GB10450@in.ibm.com>
Date:	Mon, 12 Mar 2007 19:41:44 +0530
From:	Srivatsa Vaddagiri <vatsa@...ibm.com>
To:	"Serge E. Hallyn" <serue@...ibm.com>
Cc:	Paul Menage <menage@...gle.com>, ckrm-tech@...ts.sourceforge.net,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, sam@...ain.net, dev@...ru,
	xemul@...ru, pj@....com, ebiederm@...ssion.com, winget@...gle.com,
	containers@...ts.osdl.org, akpm@...ux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: [ckrm-tech] [PATCH 0/2] resource control file system - aka containers on top of nsproxy!

On Wed, Mar 07, 2007 at 03:59:19PM -0600, Serge E. Hallyn wrote:
> > containers patches uses just a single pointer in the task_struct, and
> > all tasks in the same set of containers (across all hierarchies) will
> > share a single container_group object, which holds the actual pointers
> > to container state.
> 
> Yes, that's why this consolidation doesn't make sense to me.
> 
> Especially considering again that we will now have nsproxies pointing to
> containers pointing to... nsproxies.

nsproxies needn't point to containers. It (or as Herbert pointed -
nsproxy->pid_ns) can have direct pointers to resource objects (whatever
struct container->subsys[] points to).


-- 
Regards,
vatsa
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