So, this is just to confirm the final details about container
mini-summit which will be held tomorrow.

Time: starting at 9am 3th Sept.
Place: Cambridge's University Arms Hotel, room Churchill D.

Let's meet at the hotel lobby close to 9am and when go to the room.

Eric, Paul,
Can you please clarify whether will you be able to present or not?

PS sorry if you got this message a few times -- some DNS problems on my
mail server.



On 30/08/07, Cedric Le Goater <clg@fr.ibm.com> wrote:
>
> Hello All,
>
> Some of us will meet next week for the first mini-summit on containers.
> Many thanks to Alasdair Kergon and LCE for the help they provided in
> making this mini-summit happen !
>
> It will be help on Monday the 3rd of September from 9:00 to 12:45 at LCE
> in room D. We also might get a phone line for external participants and,
> if not, we should be able to set up a skype phone.
>
> Here's a first try for the Agenda.
>
> Global items
>
>          [ let's try to defer discussion after presentation ]
>
> * Pavel Emelianov status update
> * Serge E. Hallyn Container Roadmap including
>         . task containers (Paul Menage)
>         . resource management (Srivatsa Vaddagiri)
>
> Special items
>
>         [ brainstorm sessions which we would like to focus on ]
>
> * builing the global container object ('a la' openvz or vserver)
> * container user space tools
> * container checkpoint/restart
>
>
> Thanks,
>
> C.
>
>
>
> ======================  Section 1  ======================
> =Introduction
> ======================  Section 1  ======================
>
> We are trying to create a roadmap for the next year of
> 'container' development, to be reported to the upcoming kernel
> summit.  Containers here is a bit of an ambiguous term, so we are
> taking it to mean all of:
>
>         1. namespaces
>                 kernel resource namespaces to support resource isolation
>                 and virtualization for virtual servers and application
>                 checkpoint/restart.
>         2. task containers framework
>                  task containers provide a framework for subsystems which
> associate
>                  state with arbitrary groups of processes, for purposes
> such as
>                  resource control/monitoring.
>         3. checkpoint/restart
>
> ======================  Section 2  ======================
> =Detailed development plans
> ======================  Section 2  ======================
>
> A (still under construction) list of features we expect to be worked on
> next year looks like this:
>
>         1. completion of ongoing namespaces
>                 pid namespace
>                         push merged patchset upstream
>                         kthread cleanup
>                                 especially nfs
>                                 autofs
>                         af_unix credentials (stores pid_t?)
>                 net namespace
>                 ro bind mounts
>         2. continuation with new namespaces
>                 devpts, console, and ttydrivers
>                 user
>                 time
>                 namespace management tools
>                 namespace entering  (using one of:)
>                         bind_ns()
>                         ns container subsystem
>                         (vs refuse this functionality)
>                 multiple /sys mounts
>                         break /sys into smaller chunks?
>                         shadow dirs vs namespaces
>                 multiple proc mounts
>                         likely need to extend on the work done for pid
> namespaces
>                         i.e. other /proc files will need some care
>                                 virtualization of statistics for 'top',
> etc
>         3. any additional work needed for virtual servers?
>                 i.e. in-kernel keyring usage for cross-usernamespace
> permissions, etc
>                         nfs and rpc updates needed?
>                         general security fixes
>                                 per-container capabilities?
>                         device access controls
>                                 e.g. root in container should not have
> access to /dev/sda by default)
>                         filesystems access controls
>                 'container object'?
>                         implementation (perhaps largely userspace
> abstraction)
>                         container enter
>                         container list
>                         container shutdown notification
>
>         4. task containers functionality
>                 base features
>                         hierarchical/virtualized containers
>                                 support vserver mgmnt of sub-containers
>                         locking cleanup
>                         control file API simplification
>                 userpace RBCE to provide controls for
>                         users
>                         groups
>                         pgrp
>                         executable
>                 specific containers targeted:
>                         split cpusets into
>                                 cpuset
>                                 memset
>                         network
>                                 connect/bind/accept controller using
> iptables
>                         memory controller (see detail below)
>                         cpu controller d (see detailbelow)
>                         io controller (see detail below)
>                         network flow id control
>                         per-container OOM handler (userspace)
>                         per-container swap
>                         per-container disk I/O scheduling
>                         per container memory reclaim
>                         per container dirty page (write throttling) limit.
>                         network rate limiting (outbound) based on
> container
>                 misc
>                         User level APIS to identify the resource limits
> that is allowed to a
>                                 job, for example, how much physical memory
> a
>                                 process can use.  This should seamlessly
>                                 integrated with non-container environment
> as
>                                 well (may be with ulimit).
>                         Per container stats, like pages on active list,
> cpus usage, etc
>                 memory controller
>                         users and requirements:
>                                 1. The containers solution would need
> resource
>                                 management (including memory control and
> per container swap files).
>                                 Paul Menage, YAMOMOTO Takshi, Peter
> Zijlstra, Pavel Emelianov have all shown
>                                 interest in the memory controller patches.
>                                 2. The memory controller can account for
> page
>                                 cache as well, all people interested in
> limiting page cahce control, can
>                                 theoratically put move all page cache
> hungry applications under the same
>                                 container.
>                         Planned enhancements to the memory controller
>                                 1. Improved shared page accounting
>                                 2. Improved statistics
>                                 3. Soft-limit memory usage
>                         generic infrastructure work:
>                                 1. Enhancing containerstats
>                                         a. Working on per controller
> statistics
>                                         b. Integrating taskstats with
> containerstats
>                                 2. CPU accounting framework
>                                         a. Migrate the accounting to be
> more precis
>                 cpu controller
>                         users and requirements:
>                                 1. Virtualization solutions like
> containers and
>                                    KVM need CPU control. KVM for example
> would
>                                    like to have both limits and guarantees
>                                    supported by a CPU controller, to
> control CPU
>                                    allocation to a particular instance.
>                                 2. Workload management products would like
> to exploit this for providing
>                                    guaranteed cpu bandwidth and also
> (hard/soft) limiting cpu usage.
>                         work items
>                                 1. Fine-grained proportional-share
> fair-group scheduling.
>                                 2. More accurate SMP fairness
>                                 3. Hard limit
>                                 4. SCHED_FIFO type policy for groups
>                                 5. Improved statistics and debug facility
> for group scheduler
>                 io controller
>                         users and requirements:
>                                 1. At a talk presented to the Linux
> Foundation
>                                 (OSDL), the attendees showed interest in
> an IO
>                                 controller to