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author | Lachlan McIlroy <lachlan@redback.melbourne.sgi.com> | 2008-12-29 16:47:18 +1100 |
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committer | Lachlan McIlroy <lachlan@redback.melbourne.sgi.com> | 2008-12-29 16:47:18 +1100 |
commit | 0a8c5395f90f06d128247844b2515c8bf3f2826b (patch) | |
tree | d95382dcdfa303b99d480c01763d6cb6767fdaca /Documentation/scheduler/sched-design-CFS.txt | |
parent | 25051158bbed127e8672b43396c71c5eb610e5f1 (diff) | |
parent | 3c92ec8ae91ecf59d88c798301833d7cf83f2179 (diff) | |
download | linux-0a8c5395f90f06d128247844b2515c8bf3f2826b.tar.gz |
[XFS] Fix merge failures
Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6
Conflicts:
fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_cred.h
fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_globals.h
fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_ioctl.c
fs/xfs/xfs_vnodeops.h
Signed-off-by: Lachlan McIlroy <lachlan@sgi.com>
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diff --git a/Documentation/scheduler/sched-design-CFS.txt b/Documentation/scheduler/sched-design-CFS.txt index eb471c7a905e..8398ca4ff4ed 100644 --- a/Documentation/scheduler/sched-design-CFS.txt +++ b/Documentation/scheduler/sched-design-CFS.txt @@ -273,3 +273,24 @@ task groups and modify their CPU share using the "cgroups" pseudo filesystem. # #Launch gmplayer (or your favourite movie player) # echo <movie_player_pid> > multimedia/tasks + +8. Implementation note: user namespaces + +User namespaces are intended to be hierarchical. But they are currently +only partially implemented. Each of those has ramifications for CFS. + +First, since user namespaces are hierarchical, the /sys/kernel/uids +presentation is inadequate. Eventually we will likely want to use sysfs +tagging to provide private views of /sys/kernel/uids within each user +namespace. + +Second, the hierarchical nature is intended to support completely +unprivileged use of user namespaces. So if using user groups, then +we want the users in a user namespace to be children of the user +who created it. + +That is currently unimplemented. So instead, every user in a new +user namespace will receive 1024 shares just like any user in the +initial user namespace. Note that at the moment creation of a new +user namespace requires each of CAP_SYS_ADMIN, CAP_SETUID, and +CAP_SETGID. |