From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1765651AbXGKSsP (ORCPT ); Wed, 11 Jul 2007 14:48:15 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1756523AbXGKSsH (ORCPT ); Wed, 11 Jul 2007 14:48:07 -0400 Received: from pentafluge.infradead.org ([213.146.154.40]:49435 "EHLO pentafluge.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756371AbXGKSsG (ORCPT ); Wed, 11 Jul 2007 14:48:06 -0400 Subject: Re: containers (was Re: -mm merge plans for 2.6.23) From: Peter Zijlstra To: Paul Jackson Cc: vatsa@linux.vnet.ibm.com, mingo@elte.hu, containers@lists.osdl.org, menage@google.com, akpm@linux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <20070711100331.47ca379d.pj@sgi.com> References: <20070710013152.ef2cd200.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20070710105240.GA20914@linux.vnet.ibm.com> <6599ad830707101134k29951c45h4af0807603f52b76@mail.gmail.com> <20070710115319.0bdaff34.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20070711045516.GH2927@linux.vnet.ibm.com> <20070710222942.382fc9ba.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20070711090423.GA6758@elte.hu> <20070711022352.71604404.pj@sgi.com> <20070711100323.GA23473@linux.vnet.ibm.com> <20070711101958.GA10095@elte.hu> <20070711113953.GB23473@linux.vnet.ibm.com> <20070711044244.c0916fe5.pj@sgi.com> <1184155593.20032.29.camel@twins> <20070711100331.47ca379d.pj@sgi.com> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2007 20:47:48 +0200 Message-Id: <1184179668.5281.35.camel@lappy> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.10.1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, 2007-07-11 at 10:03 -0700, Paul Jackson wrote: > Peter wrote: > > I'd very much like to have it, but that is just me. > > Why? [linear combinations of uid, container, pid, pgrp weighting] Good question, and I really have no other answer than that it seems usefull and not impossible (or even hard) to implement :-/ I'm not even that interested in using it, it just seems like a nice idea.