[Devel] Re: [RFC][PATCH 5/7] VPIDs: vpid/pid conversion in VPID enabled case

[Cedric Le Goater]

Alexey Kuznetsov wrote:

>>Did you happen to catch Linus's mail about his preferred approach?  
>>
>>http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=113874154731279&w=2
> 
> Of course. Logically, it would be final solution.
>
> VPID approach is pragmatic: it does not modify existing logic, rather
> it relies on it. So, it just allows to use virtual pids in a simple
> and efficient way, which is enough for all known tasks.

And how bad would it be for openvz to move away from the vpid approach ? do
you have any plan for it ?

I've also seen that openvz introduces a 'vps_info_t' object, which looks
like a some virtualization backend. I'm not sure to have well understood
this framework. What the idea behind it ? is it to handle different
implementation of the virtualization ?

thanks,

C.