Re: [PATCH 0/7] containers (V7): Generic Process Containers

Sam Vilain
2007-02-12T23:08:13Z

menage@google.com wrote:
> Generic Process Containers
> --------------------------
>
> There have recently been various proposals floating around for
> resource management/accounting and other task grouping subsystems in
> the kernel, including ResGroups, User BeanCounters, NSProxy
> containers, and others. These all need the basic abstraction of being
> able to group together multiple processes in an aggregate, in order to
> track/limit the resources permitted to those processes, or control
> other behaviour of the processes, and all implement this grouping in
> different ways.
>

I know I'm a bit out of touch, but AIUI the NSProxy *is* the container.
We decided a long time ago that a container was basically just a set of
namespaces, which includes all of the subsystems you mention.

This would suggesting re-write this patchset, part 2 as a "CPUSet
namespace", part 4 as a "CPU scheduling namespace", parts 5 and 6 as
"Resource Limits Namespace" (drop this "BeanCounter" brand), and of
course part 7 falls away.

Sam.