From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1422905AbXCGR1T (ORCPT ); Wed, 7 Mar 2007 12:27:19 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1422906AbXCGR0p (ORCPT ); Wed, 7 Mar 2007 12:26:45 -0500 Received: from e2.ny.us.ibm.com ([32.97.182.142]:58085 "EHLO e2.ny.us.ibm.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1422905AbXCGR0h (ORCPT ); Wed, 7 Mar 2007 12:26:37 -0500 Date: Wed, 7 Mar 2007 23:02:26 +0530 From: Srivatsa Vaddagiri To: "Paul Menage" Cc: ebiederm@xmission.com, sam@vilain.net, akpm@linux-foundation.org, pj@sgi.com, dev@sw.ru, xemul@sw.ru, serue@us.ibm.com, containers@lists.osdl.org, winget@google.com, ckrm-tech@lists.sourceforge.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] resource control file system - aka containers on top of nsproxy! Message-ID: <20070307173226.GD2336@in.ibm.com> Reply-To: vatsa@in.ibm.com References: <20070301133543.GK15509@in.ibm.com> <6599ad830703061832w49179e75q1dd975369ba8ef39@mail.gmail.com> <20070307173031.GC2336@in.ibm.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20070307173031.GC2336@in.ibm.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, Mar 07, 2007 at 11:00:31PM +0530, Srivatsa Vaddagiri wrote: > So we got several choices here. > > 1. Introduce the container abstraction as is in your patches > 2. Extend nsproxy somehow to represent hierarchies > 3. Let individual resource controllers that -actually- support > hierarchical resource management maintain hierarchy in their code. 3 is what I am following for the cpuset conversion (currently under test). -- Regards, vatsa