On Tue, Mar 20, 2007 at 09:53:01PM +0100, Cedric Le Goater wrote: > All, > > We've been gathering, porting and testing a whole bunch of patchsets > related to namespaces, containers and resource management in what > we call the -lxc patchset. great! > The purpose of the -lxc patchset is to experiment and test a "fully" > featured linux container solution. you mean, besides the existing "fully" featured linux container solutions, like Linux-VServer, FreeVPS and OpenVZ > this is a large topic but resource management and container mobility > are the main high level features we are looking at. okay, fair enough ... > We're not there yet but we've done a lot of progress in 2006 and early > 2007. It seems a good time to share some this work and see : > > * which patchsets can be proposed to andrew > * which patchsets requires more work > * which can be dropped > * what kind of cleanups are still required > * etc. > > The latest release 2.6.20-lxc8 contains the following : > > * user namespace from Serge E. Hallyn <serue@xxxxxxxxxx> > * bind_ns() syscalls from Cedric Le Goater <clg@xxxxxxxxxx> > * ro bind mount from Dave Hansen <hansendc@xxxxxxxxxx> glad to read that this is also part of it ... > * generic Process containers from Paul Menage <menage@xxxxxxxxxx> > * namespace entering from Serge E. Hallyn <serue@xxxxxxxxxx> > * resource controllers based on process containers from Pavel Emelianov <xemul@xxxxx> > * multiple /proc (required for pid namespace) from Dave Hansen <hansendc@xxxxxxxxxx> > * pid namespace from Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@xxxxxxxxxx> > * L2 network namespace from Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xxxxxxxxxxxx> > * misc fixes and cleanups from others (sorry for not mentioning) > > and it's giving some good results on common platforms like i386 and > x86_64. what _are_ the good results? do you have performance results or other interesting data on it? if so, where can it be found? TIA, Herbert > It's all here : > > http://lxc.sourceforge.net/patches/2.6.20/2.6.20-lxc8 > > Some very basic user space tools to work and test namespaces can > also be found here : > > http://lxc.sourceforge.net/patches/2.6.20/2.6.20-lxc8/broken-out/tests/ > > A lot of work still needs to be done in user space..this is not > the highest priority for the moment but sooner or later we'll > need to spend more time on it. > > Hope you find it useful. If you have any issues with sourceforge > download, please tell me. I can move this patchset to a more > convenient site. > > Cheers, > > C. _______________________________________________ Containers mailing list Containers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.linux-foundation.org/mailman/listinfo/containers
