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

Rik van Riel
2004-04-30T12:55:49Z

On Fri, 30 Apr 2004, Christoph Hellwig wrote:

> Still doesn't make a lot of sense. CKRM is a huge cludgy beast poking
> everywhere while PAGG is a really small layer to allow kernel modules
> keeping per-process state. If CKRM gets merged at all (and the current
> looks far to horrible and the gains are rather unclear) it should layer
> ontop of something like PAGG for the functionality covered by it.

What was the last time you looked at the CKRM source?

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.

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