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From: Dave Hansen <dave@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
To: Benjamin Blum <bblum@google.com>
Cc: containers@lists.linux-foundation.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, menage@google.com,
	akpm@linux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] Adds a read-only "procs" file similar to "tasks" that shows only unique tgids
Date: Tue, 14 Jul 2009 14:49:29 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1247608169.13426.16602.camel@nimitz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2f86c2480907141426r16f8ccf3o9770e25cc8d2e509@mail.gmail.com>

On Tue, 2009-07-14 at 14:26 -0700, Benjamin Blum wrote:
> This method looks to be a compromise between Andrew's proposed
> generalized solution ( http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/7/2/518 ) and the
> current quick-fix. The problem with it is that it'll require a layer
> between whoever's using the array and managing the list structs (for
> the case where we need to chain multiple blocks together), and if
> we're going to put forth enough effort for that, we may as well go
> ahead and write up a generalized kernel-wide library to fix this size
> problem globally.

This "Andrew" guy seems to know what he's talking about. :)

We've also got a set of pgarrs (struct page arrays) in the
checkpoint/restart code that would make use of something generic like
this.  

-- Dave


  reply	other threads:[~2009-07-14 21:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-07-10 23:01 [PATCH v2 0/3] CGroups: cgroup member list enhancement/fix Ben Blum
2009-07-10 23:01 ` [PATCH 1/3] Adds a read-only "procs" file similar to "tasks" that shows only unique tgids Ben Blum
2009-07-13  3:46   ` Li Zefan
2009-07-13 15:25     ` Benjamin Blum
2009-07-14 18:34   ` Dave Hansen
2009-07-14 21:26     ` Benjamin Blum
2009-07-14 21:49       ` Dave Hansen [this message]
2009-07-14 22:55         ` Benjamin Blum
2009-07-15  1:31         ` Li Zefan
2009-07-10 23:02 ` [PATCH 2/3] Ensures correct concurrent opening/reading of pidlists across pid namespaces Ben Blum
2009-07-11 21:59   ` Serge E. Hallyn
2009-07-10 23:02 ` [PATCH 3/3] Quick vmalloc vs kmalloc fix to the case where array size is too large Ben Blum
2009-07-13  3:03   ` Li Zefan
2009-07-13  6:03     ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2009-07-13 15:27       ` Benjamin Blum
2009-07-13 23:49         ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2009-07-14  3:50           ` Paul Menage
2009-07-14  3:53             ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2009-07-14  4:04               ` Paul Menage
2009-07-14  4:25                 ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2009-07-14 17:26                   ` Benjamin Blum
2009-07-14 17:28                   ` Paul Menage
2009-07-14 17:47                     ` Dave Hansen
2009-07-14 17:50                       ` Paul Menage
2009-07-14 21:30                         ` Benjamin Blum

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