Re: [ckrm-tech] [PATCH 0/2] resource control file system - aka containers on top of nsproxy!

Srivatsa Vaddagiri
2007-03-09T18:12:12Z

On Fri, Mar 09, 2007 at 01:53:57AM +0100, Herbert Poetzl wrote:
> > The real trick is that I believe these groupings are designed to
> > be something you can setup on login and then not be able to switch
> > out of. Which means we can't use sessions and process groups as the
> > grouping entities as those have different semantics.
>
> precisely, once you are inside a resource container, you
> must not have the ability to modify its limits, and to
> some degree, you should not know about the actual available
> resources, but only about the artificial limits

>From non-container workload management perspective, we do desire dynamic
manipulation of limits associated with a group and also the ability to move
tasks across resource-classes/groups.

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Regards,
vatsa