Re: CGroup Namespaces (v4)
From: Richard Weinberger <hidden>
Date: 2015-11-16 20:41:19
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Serge, On Mon, Nov 16, 2015 at 8:51 PM, [off-list ref] wrote:
To summarize the semantics:
1. CLONE_NEWCGROUP re-uses 0x02000000, which was previously CLONE_STOPPED
2. unsharing a cgroup namespace makes all your current cgroups your new
cgroup root.
3. /proc/pid/cgroup always shows cgroup paths relative to the reader's
cgroup namespce root. A task outside of your cgroup looks like
8:memory:/../../..
4. when a task mounts a cgroupfs, the cgroup which shows up as root depends
on the mounting task's cgroup namespace.
5. setns to a cgroup namespace switches your cgroup namespace but not
your cgroups.
With this, using github.com/hallyn/lxc #2015-11-09/cgns (and
github.com/hallyn/lxcfs #2015-11-10/cgns) we can start a container in a full
proper cgroup namespace, avoiding either cgmanager or lxcfs cgroup bind mounts.
This is completely backward compatible and will be completely invisible
to any existing cgroup users (except for those running inside a cgroup
namespace and looking at /proc/pid/cgroup of tasks outside their
namespace.)
cgroupns-root.IIRC one downside of this series was that only the new "sane" cgroup layout was supported and hence it was useless for everything which expected the default layout. Hence, still no systemd for us. :) Is this now different? -- Thanks, //richard