Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Thu, 08 Mar 2007 13:35:46 +1300 | | From | Sam Vilain <> | | Subject | Re: [PATCH 0/2] resource control file system - aka containers on top of nsproxy! |
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Paul Menage wrote: >> In the namespace world when we say container we mean roughly at the level >> of nsproxy and container_group. >> > So you're saying that a task can only be in a single system-wide container. >
Nope, we didn't make the mistake of nailing down what a "container" was too far before it is implemented. We talked before about containers-within-containers because, inevitably if you provide a feature you'll end up having to deal with virtualising systems that in turn use that feature.
> My patch provides multiple potentially-independent ways of dividing up > the tasks on the system - if the "container" is the set of all > divisions that the process is in, what's an appropriate term for the > sub-units? >
namespace, since 2.4.x
> That assumes the viewpoint that your terminology is "correct" and > other people's needs "fixing". :-) >
Absolutely. Please respect the semantics established so far; changing them adds nothing at the cost of much confusion.
> But as I've said I'm not particularly wedded to the term "container" > if that really turned out to be what's blocking acceptance from people > like Andrew or Linus. Do you have a suggestion for a better name? To > me, "process container" seems like the ideal name, since it's an > abstraction that "contains" processes and associates them with some > (subsystem-provided) state. >
It's not even really the term, it's the semantics.
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