Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1750715AbWITUME (ORCPT ); Wed, 20 Sep 2006 16:12:04 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750718AbWITUMD (ORCPT ); Wed, 20 Sep 2006 16:12:03 -0400 Received: from omx1-ext.sgi.com ([192.48.179.11]:938 "EHLO omx1.americas.sgi.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750715AbWITUMB (ORCPT ); Wed, 20 Sep 2006 16:12:01 -0400 Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2006 13:11:51 -0700 From: Paul Jackson To: "Paul Menage" Cc: sekharan@us.ibm.com, clameter@sgi.com, npiggin@suse.de, ckrm-tech@lists.sourceforge.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, rohitseth@google.com, devel@openvz.org Subject: Re: [ckrm-tech] [patch00/05]: Containers(V2)- Introduction Message-Id: <20060920131151.4a810be2.pj@sgi.com> In-Reply-To: <6599ad830609201143h19f6883wb388666e27913308@mail.google.com> References: <1158718568.29000.44.camel@galaxy.corp.google.com> <1158777240.6536.89.camel@linuxchandra> <6599ad830609201143h19f6883wb388666e27913308@mail.google.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 Content-Length: 1064 Lines: 22 Paul M. wrote: > Rather than adding a new process container abstraction, wouldn't it > make more sense to change cpuset to make it more extensible (more > separation between resource controllers), possibly rename it to > "containers", Without commenting one way or the other on the overall advisability of this (for lack of sufficient clues), if we did this and renamed "cpusets" to "containers", we would still want to export the /dev/cpuset interface to just the CPU/Memory controllers. Perhaps the "container" pseudo-filesystem could optionally be mounted with a "cpuset" option, that just exposed the cpuset relevant interface, or some such thing. -- I won't rest till it's the best ... Programmer, Linux Scalability Paul Jackson 1.925.600.0401 - 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/