
On Thu, Sep 04, 2008 at 12:50:35PM -0700, Dan Smith wrote:
DV> I just checked the libcgroup heaer file available under Fedora 9 DV> and I'm a bit afraid of the dependancy. They expose a lot of DV> structure, some clearly incomplete, which means liking to it in its DV> current state may turn into a problematic dependency.
I've become increasingly concerned about the likelihood of converging on something stable that will work for libvirt in this area. I hate to ignore an abstraction layer that may help reduce the amount of knowledge of cgroups that has to be present in libvirt. However, I'm not sure that libcgroup is really going to provide such a layer, and thus would (as you put it) become nothing but a problematic dependency.
Perhaps it makes the most sense to implement a bit of cgroup support directly into libvirt to satisfy our current needs while we wait to see if libcgroup matures?
Yes I don't want to presume the ability of the libcgroup to become cleaner and more stable, we can probably go with a small internal API and when/if things become nicer, then reuse libcgroup, thanks for the insights, Daniel -- Daniel Veillard | libxml Gnome XML XSLT toolkit http://xmlsoft.org/ daniel@veillard.com | Rpmfind RPM search engine http://rpmfind.net/ http://veillard.com/ | virtualization library http://libvirt.org/