On Mon, Aug 2, 2010 at 12:31 PM, Nikunj A. Dadhania
<[email protected]> wrote:
> On Mon, 2 Aug 2010 11:47:20 +0530, Balbir Singh <[email protected]> 
> wrote:
>> * Nikunj A. Dadhania <[email protected]> [2010-08-02 11:12:11]:
>>
>> >   To do:
>> >    - A clean patch for libvirt to switch to libcgroup.
>> >    - Application to be provided a single handle which can be used for 
>> > further
>> >      cgroup API calls.
>> >
>>
>> I think this is a good step forward, as a first step, could we list
>>
>> 1. cgroup API's being used by libvirt and lxc and systemd - look at
>> them for abstractions to create
>
> Current implementation of libvirt is using following cgroup functionality:
> 1) to create cgroup directory
>   a) Creating libvirt or libvirt-`username`
>   b) Creating driver cgroup libvirt/lxc or libvirt/qemu
>   c) Creating cgroup per VM in the respective driver
>
> 2) to add task to cgroup
> 3) to set memory limit
> 4) to read current memory usage
> 5) to allow/deny devices
> 6) to set/get CPU Shares
> 7) to get CPU usage
> 8) to set/get freezer state
> 9) to remove cgroup directory
>
> I still do not have the list for systemd.
>

Don't worry about systemd. Lennart sets everything up very early. I am
working now on gettign the rest of his APIs working. And I finally
have internet access again, so I should start pushing them out
soonish.

>>
>> This is what I had in mind
>>
>> a. Build a plugin interface, on cgroup_init() it would detect mounted
>>    controllers and activate the layer2 API for each of the controllers
> Could you please elaborate on this?
>
>> b. The layer2 API would have some common abstractions like
>>
>>         set_hard_limit
>>         get_hard_limit
>>         set_soft_limit
>>         get_soft_limit
>>         ....
>>         get_stats
> This would be different per controller, right?
>
>>         Each of these would take a controller value and in turn invoke
>>         callbacks into the layer 2 code.
> I am not too sure about this, as every controller has different parameters to
> control.
>

void * :-)

Dhaval

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