Re: [RFC] Container mini-summit agenda for Sept 3, 2007

[Pavel Emelyanov <xemul-GEFAQzZX7r8dnm+yROfE0A@public.gmane.org>]

Paul Menage wrote:
> On 9/3/07, Cedric Le Goater <clg-NmTC/0ZBporQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org> wrote:
>>         http://download.openvz.org/~xemul/minisummit.odp
>>
> 
> I notice ?s against "Task scheduler" and "Network scheduler".
> 
> Is "Task scheduler" meant to represent "CPU scheduler" or "task count
> limit". If the former, CFS in the mainline should provide a lot of
> what we need, and has already been linked with task containers by
> Srivatsa Vaddagiri.

Yes, task scheduler is the CPU scheduler.

> Network scheduling is already fairly advanced in Linux - all we need
> is a way to be able to feed container information into existing Linux
> traffic control concepts. We've played with an approach that lets us
> tag a container with a particular id, and then use that id as the
> primary classifier in a standard HTB controller, and it seems to be
> fairly successful.
> 
> Paul
>