[libvirt] [PATCH 2 of 2] Use cgroup functions to set resource limits on LXC domains

[Daniel P. Berrange]

On Fri, Oct 03, 2008 at 07:45:24AM -0700, Dan Smith wrote:
> DV> creating a domain is always the trickiest part of domain lifecycle
> DV> and setting up the framework is often something a bit obfuscated,
> DV> nearly by definition. But if we could associate meaningful
> DV> constants to the device policies here, this would help people
> DV> having to improve or debug that code in the future ;-)
> 
> Okay, I suppose that if the QEMU driver ends up doing something
> similar, the constants would be reused.

Possibly - for QEMU we'd need to drive device ACL's off the list of
configured disks in the XML - we'd probably just 'stat()' them to
lookup their major/minor numbers at time of launch.

> Should they go in cgroup.h since they're expected to be used with that
> interface?

If needing to be shared, I'd suggest util.h since that has a collection
of file/filesystem related utility functions.

Daniel
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