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From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
To: "Serge E. Hallyn" <serue@us.ibm.com>
Cc: lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Dhaval Giani <dhaval@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	mingo@elte.hu, Bharata B Rao <bharata@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Linux Containers <containers@lists.osdl.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] introduce user_ns inheritance in user-sched
Date: Fri, 20 Mar 2009 09:24:20 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1237537460.24626.32.camel@twins> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090319211615.GA18383@us.ibm.com>

On Thu, 2009-03-19 at 16:16 -0500, Serge E. Hallyn wrote:
> In a kernel compiled with CONFIG_USER_SCHED=y, cpu shares are
> allocated according to uid.  Shares are specifiable under
> /sys/kernel/uids/<uid>/
> 
> In a kernel compiled with CONFIG_USER_NS=y, clone(2) with the
> CLONE_NEWUSER flag creates a new user namespace, and the newly
> cloned task will belong to uid 0 in the new user namespace.

We seem to be adding more and more stuff for USER_SCHED, is anybody
actually using that cruft?

How far along with cgroups are we to fully simulate that behaviour?

I think if we have a capable cgroup based replacement for USER_SCHED we
should axe it from the kernel, would save lots of code...



  parent reply	other threads:[~2009-03-20  8:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-03-19 21:16 [PATCH 1/1] introduce user_ns inheritance in user-sched Serge E. Hallyn
2009-03-19 23:55 ` Matt Helsley
2009-03-20  0:07   ` Serge E. Hallyn
2009-03-20  0:23   ` Serge E. Hallyn
2009-03-20  8:24 ` Peter Zijlstra [this message]
2009-03-21  2:46   ` Serge E. Hallyn
2009-03-21 11:36     ` Peter Zijlstra
2009-03-22  8:00       ` Dhaval Giani

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