On Fri, 27 Feb 2009 10:03:23 +0100 Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx> wrote: > > * Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > I think the main question is: will we ever find ourselves in > > > the future saying that "C/R sucks, nobody but a small > > > minority uses it, wish we had never merged it"? I think the > > > likelyhood of that is very low. I think the current OpenVZ > > > stuff already looks very useful, and i dont think we've > > > realized (let alone explored) all the possibilities yet. > > > > This is collecting and start of dumping part of cleaned up > > OpenVZ C/R implementation, FYI. > > > > arch/x86/include/asm/unistd_32.h | 2 > > arch/x86/kernel/syscall_table_32.S | 2 > > include/linux/Kbuild | 1 > > include/linux/cr.h | 56 ++++++ > > include/linux/ipc_namespace.h | 3 > > include/linux/syscalls.h | 5 > > init/Kconfig | 2 > > kernel/Makefile | 1 > > kernel/cr/Kconfig | 11 + > > kernel/cr/Makefile | 8 > > kernel/cr/cpt-cred.c | 115 +++++++++++++ > > kernel/cr/cpt-fs.c | 122 +++++++++++++ > > kernel/cr/cpt-mm.c | 134 +++++++++++++++ > > kernel/cr/cpt-ns.c | 324 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > > kernel/cr/cpt-signal.c | 121 +++++++++++++ > > kernel/cr/cpt-sys.c | 228 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > > kernel/cr/cr-ctx.c | 141 ++++++++++++++++ > > kernel/cr/cr.h | 61 ++++++ > > kernel/cr/rst-sys.c | 9 + > > kernel/sys_ni.c | 3 > > 20 files changed, 1349 insertions(+) > > That does not look scary to me at all. Andrew? I think we'd need to look into the details. Sure, it's isolated from a where-it-is-in-the-tree POV. But I assume that each of those files has intimate and intrusive knowledge of the internals of data structures? -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-api" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
