Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1161219AbXBOUtU (ORCPT ); Thu, 15 Feb 2007 15:49:20 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1161220AbXBOUtU (ORCPT ); Thu, 15 Feb 2007 15:49:20 -0500 Received: from smtp-out.google.com ([216.239.45.13]:14803 "EHLO smtp-out.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1161219AbXBOUtT (ORCPT ); Thu, 15 Feb 2007 15:49:19 -0500 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; s=beta; d=google.com; c=nofws; q=dns; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to: mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding: content-disposition:references; b=ePrqjxeRaRHxFH7TIqOqYyIXAjCs/1gBHNXUDVV+MKZQDab0S2v6toIW/P5gHcjq6 Ekb0RpzffLfTd8bfU03Nw== Message-ID: <6599ad830702151249i1a8537ebnea7fe5b3cc1ddfe0@mail.gmail.com> Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2007 12:49:04 -0800 From: "Paul Menage" To: "Serge E. Hallyn" Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/7] containers (V7): Cpusets hooked into containers Cc: akpm@osdl.org, pj@sgi.com, sekharan@us.ibm.com, dev@sw.ru, xemul@sw.ru, vatsa@in.ibm.com, ebiederm@xmission.com, ckrm-tech@lists.sourceforge.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, rohitseth@google.com, mbligh@google.com, winget@google.com, containers@lists.osdl.org, devel@openvz.org In-Reply-To: <20070215203517.GA30344@sergelap.austin.ibm.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <20070212081521.808338000@menage.corp.google.com> <20070212085104.290909000@menage.corp.google.com> <20070215203517.GA30344@sergelap.austin.ibm.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 949 Lines: 29 On 2/15/07, Serge E. Hallyn wrote: > > > > config CONTAINERS > > - bool "Container support" > > - help > > - This option will let you create and manage process containers, > > - which can be used to aggregate multiple processes, e.g. for > > - the purposes of resource tracking. > > - > > - Say N if unsure > > + bool > > Hi, > > why did you do this? > Containers on their own aren't all that useful, other than for process tracking, so it seemed reasonable to only build containers if there was some subsystem using them. If people wanted to use them for process tracking alone, it could certainly be made an individually-selectable option. Paul - 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/