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

[Chandra Seetharaman]

On Thu, 2006-09-21 at 17:24 -0700, Paul Jackson wrote:
> Chandra wrote:
> > There are two (competing) memory controllers in the kernel. But, distro
> > can turn only one ON. 
> 
> Huh - time for me to play the dummy again ...
> 
> My (fog shrouded) vision of the future has:
>  1) mempolicy - provides fine grained memory placement for task on self
>  2) cpuset - provides system wide cpu and memory placement for unrelated tasks
>  3) some form of resource groups - measures and limits proportion of various
>     resources used, including cpu cycles, memory pages and network bandwidth,
>     by collections of tasks.k
> 
> Both (2) and (3) need to group tasks in flexible ways distinct from the
> existing task groupings supported by the kernel.
> 
> I thought that Paul M suggested (2) and (3) use common underlying
> grouping or 'bucket' technology - the infrastructure that separates
> tasks into buckets and can be used to associate various resource
> metrics and limits with each bucket.
> 
> I can't quite figure out whether you have in mind above:
>  * a conflict between two competing memory controllers for (3),

Yes.
>  * or a conflict between cpusets and one memory controller for (3).

No.
> 
> And either way, I don't see what that has to do with the underling
> bucket technology - how we group tasks generically.

True. I clarified it in the reply to Paul M.
> 
> Guess I am missing something ...
> 
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