Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S964855AbWBTLyY (ORCPT ); Mon, 20 Feb 2006 06:54:24 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S964887AbWBTLyY (ORCPT ); Mon, 20 Feb 2006 06:54:24 -0500 Received: from mailhub.sw.ru ([195.214.233.200]:64429 "EHLO relay.sw.ru") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S964855AbWBTLyX (ORCPT ); Mon, 20 Feb 2006 06:54:23 -0500 Message-ID: <43F9AE63.2040208@sw.ru> Date: Mon, 20 Feb 2006 14:56:19 +0300 From: Kirill Korotaev User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; ru-RU; rv:1.2.1) Gecko/20030426 X-Accept-Language: ru-ru, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Sam Vilain CC: Linus Torvalds , Dave Hansen , Kirill Korotaev , Andrew Morton , Linux Kernel Mailing List , frankeh@watson.ibm.com, clg@fr.ibm.com, greg@kroah.com, alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk, serue@us.ibm.com, arjan@infradead.org, Rik van Riel , Alexey Kuznetsov , Andrey Savochkin , devel@openvz.org, Pavel Emelianov Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH 1/5] Virtualization/containers: startup References: <43E38BD1.4070707@openvz.org> <43E3915A.2080000@sw.ru> <1138991641.6189.37.camel@localhost.localdomain> <43E61448.7010704@sw.ru> <43E7E998.2020007@vilain.net> <43E890CB.1060608@sw.ru> <43E91D85.6000100@vilain.net> In-Reply-To: <43E91D85.6000100@vilain.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 653 Lines: 14 > So why store anything other than the effective container in the task? Effective container is used for temporary context change, e.g. when processing interrupts and need to handle skb. it is effective container for this code. just like get_fs()/set_fs() works. Original container pointer is used for external process identification, e.g. whether to show task in /proc in context of another task. Kirill - 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/