Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2006 22:32:26 +0530
From: Srivatsa Vaddagiri <vatsa@in.ibm.com>
To: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com>
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       devel@openvz.org, clameter@sgi.com
Subject: Re: [ckrm-tech] [patch00/05]: Containers(V2)- Introduction
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On Wed, Sep 20, 2006 at 01:27:34PM -0700, Paul Jackson wrote:
> For other resources, such as CPU cycles and network bandwidth, unless
> another bright spark comes up with an insight, I don't see how to
> express the "percentage used" semantics provided by something such
> as CKRM, using anything resembling cpusets.

How abt metered cpusets? Each child cpuset of a metered cpuset
represents a fraction of CPU time alloted to the tasks of the child
cpuset.

> ... Can one imagine having the scheduler subdivide each second of
> time available on a CPU into several fake-CPUs, each one of which
> speaks for one of those sub-second fake-CPU slices?  Sounds too
> weird to me, and a bit too rigid to be a servicable CKRM substitute.

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Regards,
vatsa
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