[Devel] Re: [PATCH 6/7] Containers (V8): BeanCounters over generic process containers

[William Lee Irwin III]

On Fri, Apr 06, 2007 at 04:32:27PM -0700, menage at google.com wrote:
> This patch implements the BeanCounter resource control abstraction
> over generic process containers. It contains the beancounter core
> code, plus the numfiles resource counter. It doesn't currently contain
> any of the memory tracking code or the code for switching beancounter
> context in interrupts.
> Currently all the beancounters resource counters are lumped into a
> single hierarchy; ideally it would be possible for each resource
> counter to be a separate container subsystem, allowing them to be

I'm very happy to see the BeanCounter work revived. The utility of
this work should extend far beyond feature work like containers and
into stability and reliability areas as well.


-- wli