On Thu, Sep 04, 2008 at 12:50:35PM -0700, Dan Smith wrote: > DV> I just checked the libcgroup heaer file available under Fedora 9 > DV> and I'm a bit afraid of the dependancy. They expose a lot of > DV> structure, some clearly incomplete, which means liking to it in its > DV> current state may turn into a problematic dependency. > > I've become increasingly concerned about the likelihood of converging on > something stable that will work for libvirt in this area. I hate to > ignore an abstraction layer that may help reduce the amount of knowledge > of cgroups that has to be present in libvirt. However, I'm not sure > that libcgroup is really going to provide such a layer, and thus would > (as you put it) become nothing but a problematic dependency. > > Perhaps it makes the most sense to implement a bit of cgroup support > directly into libvirt to satisfy our current needs while we wait to see > if libcgroup matures? Yes I don't want to presume the ability of the libcgroup to become cleaner and more stable, we can probably go with a small internal API and when/if things become nicer, then reuse libcgroup, thanks for the insights, Daniel -- Daniel Veillard | libxml Gnome XML XSLT toolkit http://xmlsoft.org/ daniel@xxxxxxxxxxxx | Rpmfind RPM search engine http://rpmfind.net/ http://veillard.com/ | virtualization library http://libvirt.org/ -- Libvir-list mailing list Libvir-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libvir-list