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    DateSat, 17 Jun 2006 23:42:59 -0700
    FromAndrew Morton <>
    SubjectRe: [RFC] CPU controllers?
    On Sun, 18 Jun 2006 16:11:18 +1000
    Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> wrote:
    
    > If you want to *completely* isolate N groups of users, surely you
    > have to use virtualisation,
    
    I'd view this as a kludge.  If one group of tasks is trashing the
    performance of another group of tasks the user is forced to use hardware
    virtualisation to work around it.
    
    I mean, is this our answer to the updatedb problem?  Instantiate a separate
    copy of the kernel just to run updatedb?
    
    > unless you are willing to isolate memory
    > management, pagecache, slab caches, network and disk IO, etc.
    
    Well yes.  Ideally and ultimately.  People have done this, and it's in
    production.  We need to see (and work upon) the patches before we can judge
    whether we want to do this, and how far we want to go.
    
    > Again, I don't care about the solutions at this stage. I want to know
    > what the problem is. Please?
    
    Isolation.  To prevent one group of processes from damaging the performance
    of other groups, by providing manageability of the resource consumption of
    each group.  There are plenty of applications of this, not just
    server-consolidation-via-server-virtualisation.
    
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