Re: containers (was Re: -mm merge plans for 2.6.23)

From: Paul Jackson
Date: Wed Jul 11 2007 - 07:10:23 EST


Srivatsa wrote:
> So Ingo was proposing we use cpuset as that user interface to manage
> task-groups. This will be only for 2.6.23.

Good explanation - thanks.

In short, the proposal was to use the task partition defined by cpusets
to define CFS task-groups, until the real process containers are
available.

Or, I see in the next message, Ingo responding favorably to your
alternative, using task uid's to partition the tasks into CFS
task-groups.

Yeah, Ingo's preference for using uid's (or gid's ??) sounds right to
me - a sustainable API.

Wouldn't want to be adding a cpuset API for a single 2.6.N release.

... gid's -- why not?

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