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From: Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano-GANU6spQydw@public.gmane.org>
To: Nathan Lynch <ntl-e+AXbWqSrlAAvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
Cc: containers-cunTk1MwBs9QetFLy7KEm3xJsTq8ys+cHZ5vskTnxNA@public.gmane.org,
	Timur Tabi <timur-KZfg59tc24xl57MIdRCFDg@public.gmane.org>
Subject: Re: Two newbie questions on containers
Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2011 15:17:51 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4D2DB80F.5020307@free.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1294790546.26638.36.camel@tp-t61>

On 01/12/2011 01:02 AM, Nathan Lynch wrote:
> Hi Timur,
>
> On Tue, 2011-01-11 at 16:08 -0600, Timur Tabi wrote:
>> I'm in the process of learning about Linux containers, including cgroups, and
>> the learning curve seems pretty steep to me.  So I have a couple newbie
>> questions for all of you.  Any detailed answered are greatly appreciated.
>>
>> 1) For the PowerPC architecture, is there anything that is "missing"?  I can't
>> really tell how much of cgroups and lxc is architecture-specific, and there
>> appears to be PowerPC support for both already.  I'd like to know if this
>> another one of those areas, like KVM, where x86 is fully implemented and PowerPC
>> support is lagging.
> cgroups and the lxc utilities work just as well on powerpc as they do on
> x86; there's nothing arch-specific about them.

On PowerPC, the network physical driver (at the hypervisor level) will 
prevent different LPAR to communicate on the same blade if the network 
is virtualized.

>> 2) Given a random device driver, like a driver for a serial port, is there an
>> opportunity for the driver to be enhanced to support cgroups or lxc?  Doing a
>> simple search of the kernel source code, I don't really see any drivers making
>> calls into any cgroup code, so I don't understand how to restrict device access
>> to a specific container or cgroup.
> Not totally sure about this myself, but have you read
> Documentation/cgroups/devices.txt in the kernel source yet?
>
>
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  reply	other threads:[~2011-01-12 14:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-01-11 22:08 Two newbie questions on containers Timur Tabi
     [not found] ` <4D2CD4F7.9040006-KZfg59tc24xl57MIdRCFDg@public.gmane.org>
2011-01-12  0:02   ` Nathan Lynch
2011-01-12 14:17     ` Daniel Lezcano [this message]
2011-01-12 17:35   ` Rob Landley

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