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

Christoph Hellwig
2004-04-30T13:06:23Z

On Fri, Apr 30, 2004 at 08:54:08AM -0400, Rik van Riel wrote:
> What was the last time you looked at the CKRM source?

the day before yesterday (the patch in SuSE's tree because there
doesn't seem to be any official patch on their website)

> Sure it's a bit bigger than PAGG, but that's also because
> it includes the functionality to change the group a process
> belongs to and other things that don't seem to be included
> in the PAGG patch.

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 ontop of that.