Re: [PATCH] Process Aggregates (PAGG) support for the 2.6 kernel

Christoph Hellwig
2004-04-30T16:45:51Z

On Fri, Apr 30, 2004 at 11:22:49AM -0400, Rik van Riel wrote:
> > Again, pagg doesn't even play in that league. It's really just a tiny
> > meachnism to allow a kernel module keep per-process data. Policies like
> > process-groups can be implemented on top of that.
>
> So basically you're arguing that PAGG is better because it
> doesn't do what's needed ? ;)

I told you a bunch of times that's it's a different thing. Simply keeping
per-process state might be a useful building block for some monster resource
whatever fuckup, but certainly not the other way around.