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Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2006 10:20:27 -0800
From: "Paul Menage" <menage@google.com>
To: "Pavel Emelianov" <xemul@openvz.org>
Subject: Re: [ckrm-tech] RFC: Memory Controller
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On 10/30/06, Pavel Emelianov <xemul@openvz.org> wrote:
> and go on discussing the next question - interface.
>
> Right now this is the most diffucult one and there are two
> candidates - syscalls and configfs. I've pointed my objections
> agains configfs and haven't seen any against system calls...
>

Some objections:

- they require touching every architecture to add the new system calls
- they're harder to debug from userspace, since you can't using useful
tools such as echo and cat
- changing the interface is harder since it's (presumably) a binary API

Paul
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