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From: Blaisorblade <blaisorblade@yahoo.it>
To: user-mode-linux-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
Cc: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>,
	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [uml-devel] Re: [RFC] PATCH 0/4 - Time virtualization
Date: Fri, 28 Apr 2006 13:33:40 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200604281333.41358.blaisorblade@yahoo.it> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060426180110.GB8142@ccure.user-mode-linux.org>

On Wednesday 26 April 2006 20:01, Jeff Dike wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 19, 2006 at 02:25:00AM -0600, Eric W. Biederman wrote:

> > In the case of migration the ugly case to properly handle is the
> > monotonic timer.   That needs an offset yet it is absolutely forbidden
> > to provide that offset from the inside.  So this is the one namespace
> > that I think is inappropriate to use sys_unshare to create.
> > We need a system call so that we can specify the minimum or the
> > starting monotonic time base.

> For migration, it looks like the container will have to specify the
> time base at creation so that everything in it will have a consistent
> view of time if they get moved around.

> So, maybe it belongs in clone as a "backwards" flag similar to
> CLONE_NEWNS.

I must note that currently every (?) flag allowed for unshare is also allowed 
for clone, so you need to do that anyway.

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  reply	other threads:[~2006-04-28 11:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-04-13 17:19 Jeff Dike
2006-04-14  0:31 ` john stultz
2006-04-14  1:53   ` [uml-devel] " Jeff Dike
2006-04-14 16:24     ` john stultz
2006-04-19  8:25 ` Eric W. Biederman
2006-04-26 18:01   ` Jeff Dike
2006-04-28 11:33     ` Blaisorblade [this message]
2006-04-28 11:48       ` [uml-devel] " Jeff Dike
2006-04-28 12:14         ` Jeff Dike
2006-04-28 13:54         ` Blaisorblade
2006-04-28 15:15           ` Jeff Dike
2006-04-28 20:10             ` Blaisorblade
2006-04-28 16:18           ` Eric W. Biederman

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