Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S265106AbUD3QCt (ORCPT ); Fri, 30 Apr 2004 12:02:49 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S265097AbUD3QA0 (ORCPT ); Fri, 30 Apr 2004 12:00:26 -0400 Received: from fw.osdl.org ([65.172.181.6]:60328 "EHLO mail.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S265076AbUD3P75 (ORCPT ); Fri, 30 Apr 2004 11:59:57 -0400 Date: Fri, 30 Apr 2004 08:59:54 -0700 From: Chris Wright To: Rik van Riel Cc: Christoph Hellwig , Erik Jacobson , Paul Jackson , chrisw@osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] Process Aggregates (PAGG) support for the 2.6 kernel Message-ID: <20040430085954.U21045@build.pdx.osdl.net> References: <20040430071750.A8515@infradead.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from riel@redhat.com on Fri, Apr 30, 2004 at 08:54:08AM -0400 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1278 Lines: 29 * Rik van Riel (riel@redhat.com) wrote: > On Fri, 30 Apr 2004, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > > > Still doesn't make a lot of sense. CKRM is a huge cludgy beast poking > > everywhere while PAGG is a really small layer to allow kernel modules > > keeping per-process state. If CKRM gets merged at all (and the current > > looks far to horrible and the gains are rather unclear) it should layer > > ontop of something like PAGG for the functionality covered by it. > > What was the last time you looked at the CKRM source? > > Sure it's a bit bigger than PAGG, but that's also because > it includes the functionality to change the group a process > belongs to and other things that don't seem to be included > in the PAGG patch. I looked briefly at one of the PAGG modules called job. It contains the grouping functionalities. I suspect that this is something that would be a common need for all users of a resource grouping mechanism. thanks, -chris -- Linux Security Modules http://lsm.immunix.org http://lsm.bkbits.net - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/