Subject: Re: [RFC, PATCH 0/5] Going forward with Resource Management - A
	cpu controller
From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
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Ar Iau, 2006-08-03 am 22:42 -0700, ysgrifennodd Andrew Morton:
> The downside to such a strategy is that there is a risk that nobody ever
> gets around to implementing useful controllers, so it ends up dead code. 
> I'd judge that the interest in resource management is such that the risk of
> this happening is low.

I think the risk is that OpenVZ has all the controls and resource
managers we need, while CKRM is still more research-ish. I find the
OpenVZ code much clearer, cleaner and complete at the moment, although
also much more conservative in its approach to solving problems.

Alan

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