Hi Timur, On Tue, 2011-01-11 at 16:08 -0600, Timur Tabi wrote: > I'm in the process of learning about Linux containers, including cgroups, and > the learning curve seems pretty steep to me. So I have a couple newbie > questions for all of you. Any detailed answered are greatly appreciated. > > 1) For the PowerPC architecture, is there anything that is "missing"? I can't > really tell how much of cgroups and lxc is architecture-specific, and there > appears to be PowerPC support for both already. I'd like to know if this > another one of those areas, like KVM, where x86 is fully implemented and PowerPC > support is lagging. cgroups and the lxc utilities work just as well on powerpc as they do on x86; there's nothing arch-specific about them. > 2) Given a random device driver, like a driver for a serial port, is there an > opportunity for the driver to be enhanced to support cgroups or lxc? Doing a > simple search of the kernel source code, I don't really see any drivers making > calls into any cgroup code, so I don't understand how to restrict device access > to a specific container or cgroup. Not totally sure about this myself, but have you read Documentation/cgroups/devices.txt in the kernel source yet? _______________________________________________ Containers mailing list Containers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.linux-foundation.org/mailman/listinfo/containers
