Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1030201AbWBGWTh (ORCPT ); Tue, 7 Feb 2006 17:19:37 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1030202AbWBGWTh (ORCPT ); Tue, 7 Feb 2006 17:19:37 -0500 Received: from e1.ny.us.ibm.com ([32.97.182.141]:4003 "EHLO e1.ny.us.ibm.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1030201AbWBGWTg (ORCPT ); Tue, 7 Feb 2006 17:19:36 -0500 Message-ID: <43E91CF4.8020304@watson.ibm.com> Date: Tue, 07 Feb 2006 17:19:32 -0500 From: Hubertus Franke User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2 (Windows/20050317) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Eric W. Biederman" CC: "Serge E. Hallyn" , Sam Vilain , Rik van Riel , Kirill Korotaev , Linus Torvalds , Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, clg@fr.ibm.com, haveblue@us.ibm.com, greg@kroah.com, alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk, arjan@infradead.org, kuznet@ms2.inr.ac.ru, saw@sawoct.com, devel@openvz.org, Dmitry Mishin , Andi Kleen Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/4] Virtualization/containers: introduction References: <43E7C65F.3050609@openvz.org> <43E83E8A.1040704@vilain.net> <43E8D160.4040803@watson.ibm.com> <20060207201908.GJ6931@sergelap.austin.ibm.com> <43E90716.4020208@watson.ibm.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1021 Lines: 30 Eric W. Biederman wrote: > Hubertus Franke writes: > > > >>Kirill brought up that VPS can span a cluster.. >>if so how do you (Kirill) do that? You pre-partition the pids into allocation >>ranges for each container? >>Eitherway, if this is an important feature, then one needs to look at >>how that is achieved in pspace (e.g. mod the pidmap_alloc() function >>to take legal ranges into account). Should still be straight forward. > > > Actually legal ranges already exist in the form of min/max values. > So that is trivial to implement. > Yipp, didn't want to state the obvious, but also give Kirrill a chance to explain how its done in OpenVZ. Ultimately, the same "partitioning" that works on vps_info, should work on pspace. -- Hubertus - 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/