Re: [Devel] OLS paper topics

2008-01-30 Thread Dhaval Giani
On Wed, Jan 30, 2008 at 09:40:43AM -0600, Serge E. Hallyn wrote: > Quoting Dhaval Giani ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > Ok I figured resource mgmt and cgroups would be combined, but I'm fine > splitting them. So can I do: > > cgroups: Paul Menage, Balbir > Resource Management: dhaval, someone from open

[Devel] Re: [PATCH] [NFS]: Lock daemon start/stop rework.

2008-01-30 Thread Denis V. Lunev
Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Wed, Jan 30, 2008 at 02:41:34PM +0300, Denis V. Lunev wrote: >> The pid of the locking daemon can be substituted with a task struct >> without a problem. Namely, the value if filled in the context of the lockd >> thread and used in lockd_up/lockd_down. >> >> It is poss

[Devel] Re: [PATCH] [NFS]: Lock daemon start/stop rework.

2008-01-30 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Wed, Jan 30, 2008 at 02:41:34PM +0300, Denis V. Lunev wrote: > The pid of the locking daemon can be substituted with a task struct > without a problem. Namely, the value if filled in the context of the lockd > thread and used in lockd_up/lockd_down. > > It is possible to save task struct instea

[Devel] Re: [PATCH net-2.6.25][NETNS]: Fix race between put_net() and netlink_kernel_create().

2008-01-30 Thread David Miller
From: Pavel Emelyanov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2008 16:15:13 +0300 > The comment about "race free view of the set of network > namespaces" was a bit hasty. Look (there even can be only > one CPU, as discovered by Alexey Dobriyan and Denis Lunev): ... > Instead, I propose to crate t

[Devel] Re: [PATCH 2.6.24-rc8-mm1 14/15] (RFC) IPC/semaphores: prepare semundo code to work on another task than current

2008-01-30 Thread Serge E. Hallyn
Quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > From: Pierre Peiffer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > In order to modify the semundo-list of a task from procfs, we must be able to > work on any target task. > But all the existing code playing with the semundo-list, currently works > only on the 'current'

[Devel] Re: [PATCH 2.6.24-rc8-mm1 12/15] (RFC) IPC/semaphores: make use of RCU to free the sem_undo_list

2008-01-30 Thread Serge E. Hallyn
Quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > From: Pierre Peiffer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Today, the sem_undo_list is freed when the last task using it exits. > There is no mechanism in place, that allows a safe concurrent access to > the sem_undo_list of a target task and protects efficiently

Re: [Devel] OLS paper topics

2008-01-30 Thread Balbir Singh
Serge E. Hallyn wrote: > Quoting Balbir Singh ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): >> Cedric Le Goater wrote: > == Topic == > > Namespaces, containers, cgroups, and container checkpoint/restart. > > == Description == > > Development for namespaces and cgroups is well underway in the >>>

Re: [Devel] OLS paper topics

2008-01-30 Thread Serge E. Hallyn
Quoting Balbir Singh ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Cedric Le Goater wrote: > > > >>> == Topic == > >>> > >>> Namespaces, containers, cgroups, and container checkpoint/restart. > >>> > >>> == Description == > >>> > >>> Development for namespaces and cgroups is well underway in the > >>> mainline kernel. T

Re: [Devel] OLS paper topics

2008-01-30 Thread Serge E. Hallyn
Quoting Cedric Le Goater ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > >> Why is that a conflict w.r.t resource management, isn't that more of a >> cgroup >> feature - task migration. We need task migration for resource management, >> but >> task migration is a system administrator/management function. I don't see >>

Re: [Devel] OLS paper topics

2008-01-30 Thread Serge E. Hallyn
Quoting Dhaval Giani ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > On Wed, Jan 30, 2008 at 02:28:13PM +0530, Balbir Singh wrote: > > Kir Kolyshkin wrote: > > > Serge E. Hallyn wrote: > > >> Quoting Kir Kolyshkin ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > >> > > >>> Serge E. Hallyn wrote: > > >>> > > mini-summit: > > I

[Devel] Re: [PATCH 2/3] netns netfilter: netns propagation for /proc/net/*_tables_names

2008-01-30 Thread Patrick McHardy
Alexey Dobriyan wrote: Propagate netns together with AF down to ->start/->next/->stop iterators. Choose table based on netns and AF for showing. Applied. ___ Devel mailing list Devel@openvz.org https://openvz.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

[Devel] Re: [PATCH 3/3] netns netfilter: create per-netns /proc/net/*_tables_*

2008-01-30 Thread Patrick McHardy
Alexey Dobriyan wrote: Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- include/linux/netfilter/x_tables.h |4 ++-- net/ipv4/netfilter/arp_tables.c| 21 ++--- net/ipv4/netfilter/ip_tables.c | 21 ++--- net/ipv6/netfilter/ip6_tables.c|

[Devel] Re: [PATCH 1/3] netns netfilter: semi-rewrite of /proc/net/foo_tables_*

2008-01-30 Thread Patrick McHardy
Alexey Dobriyan wrote: Argh, there are many small but still wrong things with /proc/net/*_tables_* so I decided to do overhaul simultaneously making it more suitable for per-netns /proc/net/*_tables_* implementation. Fix a) xt_get_idx() duplicating now standard seq_list_start/seq_list_next it

Re: [Devel] OLS paper topics

2008-01-30 Thread Cedric Le Goater
Why is that a conflict w.r.t resource management, isn't that more of a cgroup feature - task migration. We need task migration for resource management, but task migration is a system administrator/management function. I don't see the conflict, but may be I am missing something very obvious. Th

[Devel] [PATCH] [NFS]: Lock daemon start/stop rework.

2008-01-30 Thread Denis V. Lunev
The pid of the locking daemon can be substituted with a task struct without a problem. Namely, the value if filled in the context of the lockd thread and used in lockd_up/lockd_down. It is possible to save task struct instead and use it to kill the process. The safety of this operation is guarante

Re: [Devel] OLS paper topics

2008-01-30 Thread Dhaval Giani
On Wed, Jan 30, 2008 at 02:28:13PM +0530, Balbir Singh wrote: > Kir Kolyshkin wrote: > > Serge E. Hallyn wrote: > >> Quoting Kir Kolyshkin ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > >> > >>> Serge E. Hallyn wrote: > >>> > mini-summit: > I will submit for a 1-day mini-summit. Some interesting > >>>

Re: [Devel] OLS paper topics

2008-01-30 Thread Balbir Singh
Cedric Le Goater wrote: > >>> == Topic == >>> >>> Namespaces, containers, cgroups, and container checkpoint/restart. >>> >>> == Description == >>> >>> Development for namespaces and cgroups is well underway in the >>> mainline kernel. To keep momentum going and keep the loosely >>> knit teams of d

Re: [Devel] OLS paper topics

2008-01-30 Thread Cedric Le Goater
== Topic == Namespaces, containers, cgroups, and container checkpoint/restart. == Description == Development for namespaces and cgroups is well underway in the mainline kernel. To keep momentum going and keep the loosely knit teams of developers well-coordinated, a physical meeting in which t

[Devel] Re: [PATCH 2.6.24-rc8-mm1 09/15] (RFC) IPC: new kernel API to change an ID

2008-01-30 Thread Pierre Peiffer
Alexey Dobriyan wrote: > On Tue, Jan 29, 2008 at 05:02:38PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> This patch provides three new API to change the ID of an existing >> System V IPCs. >> >> These APIs are: >> long msg_chid(struct ipc_namespace *ns, int id, int newid); >> long sem_chid(struct

Re: [Devel] OLS paper topics

2008-01-30 Thread Balbir Singh
Kir Kolyshkin wrote: > Serge E. Hallyn wrote: >> Quoting Kir Kolyshkin ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): >> >>> Serge E. Hallyn wrote: >>> mini-summit: I will submit for a 1-day mini-summit. Some interesting remaining topics for the mini-summit would include device namespa

Re: [Devel] OLS paper topics

2008-01-30 Thread Kir Kolyshkin
Serge E. Hallyn wrote: Quoting Kir Kolyshkin ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Serge E. Hallyn wrote: mini-summit: I will submit for a 1-day mini-summit. Some interesting remaining topics for the mini-summit would include device namespaces, ttys and syslog, and lots of check