On 2013/01/18 13:33, Glauber Costa wrote: > On 01/17/2013 09:29 PM, Eric W. Biederman wrote: >> Serge Hallyn <serge.hallyn@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: >> >>> Quoting Eric W. Biederman (ebiederm@xxxxxxxxxxxx): >>>> Serge Hallyn <serge.hallyn@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: >>>> >>>>> I actually was waiting for Eric to do it, but I'll happily send it >>>>> to linux-fsdevel and lkml (in a bit). >>>> >>>> I might just. >>>> >>>> I will take a look at this in a week or so. I want to get through the >>>> core userspace bits first so I can just cross those off my list of >>>> things that need to be done. >>>> >>>> Eric >>> >>> Ok, I'll wait on sending it then - thanks. >> >> Next up is my patch to shadow-utils and then taking a good hard stare at >> what is left kernel side. >> >> One of the questions I need to answer is: Do cgroups actually work >> for what needs to be limited? Or does the the focus of cgroups on >> processes without other ownership in objects fundamentally limit what >> can be expressed with cgroups in a problematic way. In which case would >> some hierarchical limits based on user namespaces and rlimits be easier >> to implement and make more sense. >> >> I think the answer will be that cgroups are good enough but that >> question certainly needs looking at. >> >> Anyway. shadow-utils, minimal tmpfs, minimal devpts, and then the rest. >> > First easy question: > > cgroups are not necessarily configured. > > IIUC, the aim of this patch is to allow unprivileged mounts of tmpfs > relying on the fact that cgroups will stop memory abuse (correct me if I > am wrong). > > But what if the user is not using cgroups? > I think maybe we can force config MEMCG being selected when we decide to enable userns. _______________________________________________ Containers mailing list Containers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/containers
