Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932084AbWITVEc (ORCPT ); Wed, 20 Sep 2006 17:04:32 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932091AbWITVEc (ORCPT ); Wed, 20 Sep 2006 17:04:32 -0400 Received: from omx2-ext.sgi.com ([192.48.171.19]:55430 "EHLO omx2.sgi.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932084AbWITVEa (ORCPT ); Wed, 20 Sep 2006 17:04:30 -0400 Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2006 14:04:01 -0700 From: Paul Jackson To: "Paul Menage" Cc: sekharan@us.ibm.com, npiggin@suse.de, ckrm-tech@lists.sourceforge.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, rohitseth@google.com, devel@openvz.org, clameter@sgi.com Subject: Re: [ckrm-tech] [patch00/05]: Containers(V2)- Introduction Message-Id: <20060920140401.39cc88ab.pj@sgi.com> In-Reply-To: <6599ad830609201351k6d72067fpc86069ffb5bb60ba@mail.google.com> References: <1158718568.29000.44.camel@galaxy.corp.google.com> <1158777240.6536.89.camel@linuxchandra> <6599ad830609201143h19f6883wb388666e27913308@mail.google.com> <1158778496.6536.95.camel@linuxchandra> <6599ad830609201225k3d38afe2gea7adc2fa8067e0@mail.google.com> <20060920134903.fbd9fea8.pj@sgi.com> <6599ad830609201351k6d72067fpc86069ffb5bb60ba@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: 1182 Lines: 29 Paul M. wrote: > I'm not saying that they can - but they could be parallel types of > resource controller for a generic container abstraction, When there are a sufficiently large number of sufficiently similar types of objects, such as for example file systems, then a 'generic container abstraction' such as vfs in the file system case becomes well worth it, even essential. I'll be surprised if we have enough such similarity between cpusets and resource groups to be able to find a useful abstract generalization that is common to them both. But if someone finds a way to rewrite resource groups using cpusets and can convince the resource group folks of this, I'm game to consider it. Just because some abstract generalizations are good doesn't mean they all are. -- 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/