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From: Li Zefan <lizefan-hv44wF8Li93QT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
To: Marian Marinov <mm-NV7Lj0SOnH0@public.gmane.org>
Cc: lxc-devel-cunTk1MwBs9qMoObBWhMNEqPaTDuhLve2LY78lusg7I@public.gmane.org,
	cgroups-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org,
	"Daniel P. Berrange"
	<berrange-H+wXaHxf7aLQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>,
	Serge Hallyn
	<serge.hallyn-GeWIH/nMZzLQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
Subject: Re: RFC: cgroups aware proc
Date: Tue, 7 Jan 2014 19:17:03 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <52CBE22F.1010106@huawei.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <52C8A36B.6030201-NV7Lj0SOnH0@public.gmane.org>

On 2014/1/5 8:12, Marian Marinov wrote:
> Happy new year guys.
> 
> I need to have /proc cgroups aware, as I want to have LXC containers that see only the resources that are given to them.
> 
> In order to do that I had to patch the kernel. I decided to start with cpuinfo, stat and interrupts and then continue
> with meminfo and loadavg.
> 
> I managed to patch the Kernel (linux 3.12.0) and make /proc/cpuinfo, /proc/stat and /proc/interrupts be cgroups aware.
> 
> Attached are the patches that make the necessary changes.
> 
> The change for /proc/cpuinfo and /proc/interrupts is currently done only for x86 arch, but I will patch the rest of the
> architectures if the style of the patches is acceptable.
> 
> Tomorrow I will check if the patches apply and build with the latest kernel.
> 

People tried to do this before, but got rejected by upstream maintainers,
and then the opinion was to do this in userspace throught FUSE.

Seems libvirt-lxc already supports containerized /proc/meminfo in this way.
See:
	http://libvirt.org/drvlxc.html

  parent reply	other threads:[~2014-01-07 11:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <529350DB.3010906@yuhu.biz>
     [not found] ` <20131125150940.GB7120@sergelap>
     [not found]   ` <20131125151232.GR6766@redhat.com>
     [not found]     ` <52937B0C.3070005@yuhu.biz>
     [not found]       ` <52937B0C.3070005-NV7Lj0SOnH0@public.gmane.org>
2014-01-04  4:28         ` RFC: cgroups aware proc Marian Marinov
     [not found]           ` <52C78E09.60904-NV7Lj0SOnH0@public.gmane.org>
2014-01-05  0:12             ` Marian Marinov
     [not found]               ` <52C8A36B.6030201-NV7Lj0SOnH0@public.gmane.org>
2014-01-07 11:16                 ` Li Zefan
2014-01-07 11:17                 ` Li Zefan [this message]
     [not found]                   ` <52CBE22F.1010106-hv44wF8Li93QT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
2014-01-07 17:42                     ` Marian Marinov
     [not found]                       ` <52CC3C80.8030603-NV7Lj0SOnH0@public.gmane.org>
2014-01-08 15:27                         ` Serge Hallyn
2014-01-10 16:29                           ` Marian Marinov
2014-01-13  3:26                         ` Li Zefan
     [not found]                           ` <52D41316.5080508@yuhu.biz>
2014-01-13 17:12                             ` Fwd: " Peter Zijlstra
     [not found]                               ` <20140113171238.GS31570-ndre7Fmf5hadTX5a5knrm8zTDFooKrT+cvkQGrU6aU0@public.gmane.org>
2014-01-14  0:58                                 ` Marian Marinov
     [not found]                                   ` <52D48BA6.2080701-NV7Lj0SOnH0@public.gmane.org>
2014-01-14 10:05                                     ` Peter Zijlstra

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