From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S965534AbXCATjH (ORCPT ); Thu, 1 Mar 2007 14:39:07 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S965533AbXCATjH (ORCPT ); Thu, 1 Mar 2007 14:39:07 -0500 Received: from netops-testserver-4-out.sgi.com ([192.48.171.29]:35243 "EHLO netops-testserver-4.corp.sgi.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S965534AbXCATjG (ORCPT ); Thu, 1 Mar 2007 14:39:06 -0500 Date: Thu, 1 Mar 2007 11:39:00 -0800 From: Paul Jackson To: vatsa@in.ibm.com Cc: menage@google.com, ebiederm@xmission.com, sam@vilain.net, akpm@linux-foundation.org, 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: <20070301113900.a7dace47.pj@sgi.com> In-Reply-To: <20070301133543.GK15509@in.ibm.com> References: <20070301133543.GK15509@in.ibm.com> Organization: SGI X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 2.2.4 (GTK+ 2.8.3; i686-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org vatsa wrote: > I suspect we can make cpusets also work > on top of this very easily. I'm skeptical, and kinda worried. ... can you show me the code that does this? Namespaces are not the same thing as actual resources (memory, cpu cycles, ...). Namespaces are fluid mappings; Resources are scarce commodities. I'm wagering you'll break either the semantics, and/or the performance, of cpusets doing this. -- I won't rest till it's the best ... Programmer, Linux Scalability Paul Jackson 1.925.600.0401