[libvirt] [PATCH 0 of 2] [RFC] Add cgroup manipulation and LXC driver support

Balbir Singh balbir at linux.vnet.ibm.com
Wed Oct 1 02:29:22 UTC 2008


Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 11:11:57AM -0700, Dan Smith wrote:
>> BS> For all practical purposes, it is not possible to mount all
>> BS> controllers at the same place. Consider a simple case of "ns", if
>> BS> the ns controller is mounted, you need root permissions to create
>> BS> new groups, which defeats the whole purpose of the cgroup
>> BS> filesystem and assigning permissions, so that an application can
>> BS> create groups on it own.
>>
>> I don't think I'd go so far as saying that it "defeats the whole
>> purpose", but I understand your point.
>>
>> After just a small amount of playing around, it seems like it might be
>> reasonable to just mount the controllers we care about somewhere just
>> for libvirt.
>>
>>>> - What to do if memory and device controllers aren't present
>>>> - What to do if the root group is set for exclusive cpuset behavior
>> BS> These need to be fixed as well.
>>
>> ...that's why I pointed them out :)
>>
>> I'm thinking that mounting the controllers we care about at daemon
>> startup (as mentioned above) would solve both of these issues as well.
>>
>> Does anyone have an opinion on taking that approach?
> 
> The trouble is then libvirt would be dictating policy to the host
> admin, because once you mount a particular controller, you can't
> change the wayu its mounted. So if libvirt mounted each controller
> separately, then the admin couldn't have a mount with multiple
> controllers active, and vica-verca. The kernel cgroups interface
> really sucks in this regard :-(
> 
> At the same time having the controllers mounted is mandatory for libvirt
> to work and asking the admin to set things up manually also sucks. So
> perhaps we'll need to mount them automatically, but make this behaviuour
> configurable in some way, so admin can override it


As I mentioned in my previous email, one could use the cgconfigparser to
automatically mount the controllers at initscripts time and then also use a
policy to automatically classify tasks.



-- 
	Balbir




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