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SubjectRe: [PATCH] Process Aggregates (PAGG) support for the 2.6 kernel
* Rik van Riel (riel@redhat.com) wrote:
> On Fri, 30 Apr 2004, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
>
> > Still doesn't make a lot of sense. CKRM is a huge cludgy beast poking
> > everywhere while PAGG is a really small layer to allow kernel modules
> > keeping per-process state. If CKRM gets merged at all (and the current
> > looks far to horrible and the gains are rather unclear) it should layer
> > ontop of something like PAGG for the functionality covered by it.
>
> What was the last time you looked at the CKRM source?
>
> Sure it's a bit bigger than PAGG, but that's also because
> it includes the functionality to change the group a process
> belongs to and other things that don't seem to be included
> in the PAGG patch.

I looked briefly at one of the PAGG modules called job. It contains the
grouping functionalities. I suspect that this is something that would
be a common need for all users of a resource grouping mechanism.

thanks,
-chris
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