From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S933407AbXGKTpB (ORCPT ); Wed, 11 Jul 2007 15:45:01 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1765922AbXGKTov (ORCPT ); Wed, 11 Jul 2007 15:44:51 -0400 Received: from smtp-out.google.com ([216.239.45.13]:15173 "EHLO smtp-out.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1765131AbXGKTou (ORCPT ); Wed, 11 Jul 2007 15:44:50 -0400 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=WUuB1BJp/4kryOFYUpFrXb7qtpdgup/B3CbrXI5QqIlnFzXYxSBxTT37I7n4GZhAL y1lhiSMy6B0e67GemwKtA== Message-ID: <6599ad830707111244g5da91426g79b01aef4302658@mail.gmail.com> Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2007 12:44:42 -0700 From: "Paul Menage" To: "Andrew Morton" Subject: Re: containers (was Re: -mm merge plans for 2.6.23) Cc: vatsa@linux.vnet.ibm.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, containers@lists.osdl.org, "Ingo Molnar" In-Reply-To: <20070710222942.382fc9ba.akpm@linux-foundation.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <20070710013152.ef2cd200.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20070710105240.GA20914@linux.vnet.ibm.com> <6599ad830707101134k29951c45h4af0807603f52b76@mail.gmail.com> <20070710115319.0bdaff34.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20070711045516.GH2927@linux.vnet.ibm.com> <20070710222942.382fc9ba.akpm@linux-foundation.org> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 7/10/07, Andrew Morton wrote: > > I'm inclined to take the cautious route here - I don't think people will be > dying for the CFS thingy (which I didn't even know about?) in .23, and it's > rather a lot of infrastructure to add for a CPU scheduler configurator Selecting the relevant patches to give enough of the container framework to support a CFS container subsystem (slightly tweaked/updated versions of the base patch, procfs interface patch and tasks file interface patch) is about 1600 lines in kernel/container.c and another 200 in kernel/container.h, which is about 99% of the non-documentation changes. So not tiny, but it's not very intrusive on the rest of the kernel, and would avoid having to introduce a temporary API based on uids. Paul