From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S965307AbWFAVGZ (ORCPT ); Thu, 1 Jun 2006 17:06:25 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S965306AbWFAVGZ (ORCPT ); Thu, 1 Jun 2006 17:06:25 -0400 Received: from [212.33.162.190] ([212.33.162.190]:1028 "EHLO raad.intranet") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S965307AbWFAVGY (ORCPT ); Thu, 1 Jun 2006 17:06:24 -0400 From: Al Boldi To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [RFC 3/5] sched: Add CPU rate hard caps Date: Fri, 2 Jun 2006 00:03:51 +0300 User-Agent: KMail/1.5 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200606020003.51504.a1426z@gawab.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Chandra Seetharaman wrote: > On Thu, 2006-06-01 at 14:04 +0530, Balbir Singh wrote: > > Kirill Korotaev wrote: > > >> Do you have any documented requirements for container resource > > >> management? > > >> Is there a minimum list of features and nice to have features for > > >> containers > > >> as far as resource management is concerned? > > > > > > Sure! You can check OpenVZ project (http://openvz.org) for example of > > > required resource management. BTW, I must agree with other people here > > > who noticed that per-process resource management is really useless and > > > hard to use :( > > I totally agree. > > > I'll take a look at the references. I agree with you that it will be > > useful to have resource management for a group of tasks. For Resource Management to be useful it must depend on Resource Control. Resource Control depends on per-process accounting. Per-process accounting, when abstracted sufficiently, may enable higher level routines, preferrably in userland, to extend functionality at will. All efforts should really go into the successful abstraction of per-process accounting. Thanks! -- Al