[Devel] Re: [patch00/05]: Containers(V2)- Introduction

[Rohit Seth]

On Wed, 2006-09-20 at 16:36 -0700, Christoph Lameter wrote:
> On Wed, 20 Sep 2006, Rohit Seth wrote:
> 
> > > How does the containers implementation under discussion behave if a 
> > > process is part of a container and the container is removed?
> > It first removes all the tasks belonging to this container (which means
> > resetting the container pointers in task_struct and then per page
> > container pointer belonging to anonymous pages).  It then clears the
> > container pointers in the mapping structure and also in the pages
> > belonging to these files.
> 
> So the application continues to run unharmed?
> 

It will hit a one time penalty of getting those pointers reset, but
besides that it will continue to run fine.

> Could we equip containers with restrictions on processors and nodes for 
> NUMA?
> 

Yes.  That is something we will have to do (I think part of CPU
handler-TBD).

-rohit