Re: [libvirt] PATCH: 0/3: Run QEMU guests within a CGroup
On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 10:40:54PM +0000, David Lutterkort wrote:
On Thu, 2009-02-26 at 16:36 +0000, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> Recent Linux kernels have a new concept of 'CGroups' which is a way to
> group tasks on the system and apply policy to them as a whole. We already
> use this in the LXC container driver, to control total memory usage of
> things runing within a container.
>
> This patch series is a proof of concept to make use of CGroups in the
> QEMU driver. The idea is that we have a 3 level cgroup hierarchy
>
> - Top level; contains the libvirtd daemon itself
> - 2nd level: one per libvirt driver, but dos not contain any
> processes.
> - 3rd level: one per guest VM. Contains the QEMU process
Why the separate group for the driver ? Do you see partitioning of
resources by driver as an important requirement ?
It is mostly a namespacing issue. The per-VM group names on the filesystem
are based off the VM name. VM names are only unique within scope of a
driver. Since both LXC and QEMU drivers use CGroups, we need to make
sure they have separate namespace in cgroups. A per-driver cgroup solves
this nicely.
Daniel
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