Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756214AbXKEOrV (ORCPT ); Mon, 5 Nov 2007 09:47:21 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751183AbXKEOrO (ORCPT ); Mon, 5 Nov 2007 09:47:14 -0500 Received: from ug-out-1314.google.com ([66.249.92.169]:16049 "EHLO ug-out-1314.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751087AbXKEOrN (ORCPT ); Mon, 5 Nov 2007 09:47:13 -0500 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=googlemail.com; s=beta; h=received:from:to:subject:date:user-agent:cc:references:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:message-id; b=SVyabmwzsNjKGJTwGgGTV/krEVm63CSrohdbxurUdYS0jkbOD3Gs9EeuV3Ot5X/3MO5U35I8Xh23vdva3chTYfSqXVZds8tUaxJ2rRdHYE6GXF2hjtKZJEpGHqhzSAQQOxhZx8c11WfQrpa7DR2zd9naa+QfHlxUM5e00sXHyqA= From: Denys Vlasenko To: Ingo Molnar Subject: Re: [patch] PID namespaces Date: Mon, 5 Nov 2007 14:47:01 +0000 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.1 Cc: Linus Torvalds , Dave Hansen , Andrew Morton , Pavel Emelyanov , Ulrich Drepper , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, "Dinakar Guniguntala [imap]" , Sripathi Kodi References: <4729E7E4.8070208@openvz.org> <20071104103851.GA14317@elte.hu> In-Reply-To: <20071104103851.GA14317@elte.hu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200711051447.02232.vda.linux@googlemail.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 697 Lines: 15 On Sunday 04 November 2007 10:38, Ingo Molnar wrote: > I.e. keep the namespace functionality but use a modulo 1.000.000 base > for the PIDs so that it all looks nicer to the user. Minimal visibility > difference but maximum compatibility. (The resulting limits are > reasonable: 1 million tasks per container and 4 million containers on a > single 32-bit box.) We could still restrict cross-namespace API use but 4 thousand, not 4 million. -- vda - 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/