From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Glauber Costa Subject: Re: [RFD] cgroup: about multiple hierarchies Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2012 14:11:51 +0400 Message-ID: <4F5F1D67.10001@parallels.com> References: <20120221211938.GE12236@google.com> <20120312221050.GG23255@google.com> <1331590938.18960.57.camel@twins> <20120312222817.GI23255@google.com> <1331591568.18960.61.camel@twins> <20120312223944.GJ23255@google.com> <1331592241.18960.64.camel@twins> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <1331592241.18960.64.camel@twins> Sender: cgroups-owner-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org List-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format="flowed" To: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Tejun Heo , Li Zefan , containers-cunTk1MwBs9QetFLy7KEm3xJsTq8ys+cHZ5vskTnxNA@public.gmane.org, cgroups-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org, Andrew Morton , Kay Sievers , Lennart Poettering , Frederic Weisbecker , linux-kernel-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org, Vivek Goyal , Michal Schmidt On 03/13/2012 02:44 AM, Peter Zijlstra wrote: > On Mon, 2012-03-12 at 15:39 -0700, Tejun Heo wrote: >> > If we can get to the point where nesting is fully >> > supported by every controller first, that would be awesome too. > As long as that is the goal.. otherwise, I'd be overjoyed if I can rip > nesting support out of the cpu-controller.. that stuff is such a pain. > Then again, I don't think the container people like this proposal -- > they were the ones pushing for full hierarchy back when. Indeed. At some point it is desirable that an admin inside the container be able to divide resources between the tasks they see. Maybe it doesn't even make sense for things like I/O, for each he at most has an illusion of control anyway. But cpu is a lot more tangible resource in this regard.