From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753725AbXDIQzJ (ORCPT ); Mon, 9 Apr 2007 12:55:09 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753729AbXDIQzJ (ORCPT ); Mon, 9 Apr 2007 12:55:09 -0400 Received: from holomorphy.com ([66.93.40.71]:49765 "EHLO holomorphy.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753725AbXDIQzI (ORCPT ); Mon, 9 Apr 2007 12:55:08 -0400 Date: Mon, 9 Apr 2007 09:44:34 -0700 From: William Lee Irwin III To: menage@google.com Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org, sekharan@us.ibm.com, dev@sw.ru, xemul@sw.ru, serue@us.ibm.com, vatsa@in.ibm.com, ebiederm@xmission.com, ckrm-tech@lists.sourceforge.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, containers@lists.osdl.org, mbligh@google.com, rohitseth@google.com, devel@openvz.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 6/7] Containers (V8): BeanCounters over generic process containers Message-ID: <20070409164434.GU2986@holomorphy.com> References: <20070406233221.989528000@menage.corp.google.com> <20070407001324.840593000@menage.corp.google.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20070407001324.840593000@menage.corp.google.com> Organization: The Domain of Holomorphy User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Fri, Apr 06, 2007 at 04:32:27PM -0700, menage@google.com wrote: > This patch implements the BeanCounter resource control abstraction > over generic process containers. It contains the beancounter core > code, plus the numfiles resource counter. It doesn't currently contain > any of the memory tracking code or the code for switching beancounter > context in interrupts. > Currently all the beancounters resource counters are lumped into a > single hierarchy; ideally it would be possible for each resource > counter to be a separate container subsystem, allowing them to be I'm very happy to see the BeanCounter work revived. The utility of this work should extend far beyond feature work like containers and into stability and reliability areas as well. -- wli