[Devel] Re: [RFC][PATCH 2/7] VPIDs: pid/vpid conversions

[Eric W. Biederman]

Alexey Kuznetsov <kuznet at ms2.inr.ac.ru> writes:

> Hello!
>
>> do you mean "preserving some sort of *global* pidspace"?

> Of course.

Ok.  Then my sympathies, I can understand what a difficult position
this places you in.  A global pidspace resembling the one you have now
is the one idea that has been consistently shot down in all of the
discussions.  So I doubt anything short of a miracle could get it
merged in the short term. 

I am fairly certain that everyone who has existing management code at
this point will find it needs modifications to work with whatever
version is merged into the mainstream kernel.

Eric