[libvirt] [PATCH 1 of 2] Add internal cgroup manipulation functions

[Dan Smith]

DB> My thought on the overall design of this internal API is that it
DB> is too low level & pushing too much work to the caller. eg, the
DB> caller would have to lookup virCGroupPtr objects for each
DB> controller it cares about,

Well, that's not what I had in mind, actually.

DB> and has to remember the tunables & their data types.

Not pushing the actual value names up to the caller is a reasonable
abstraction, I suppose.  It seems like in the future QEMU may want to
use one type of memory limit, where LXC wants another.  I can see LXC
domains having multiple memory limits (soft, hard, per process, per
group, etc) where those might not be meaningful to QEMU domains.

DB> While this kind of interface is applicable for a general purpose
DB> API, libvirt's needs are not general purpose. While LXC driver is
DB> the only current user, as more controllers are added I anticipate
DB> that QEMU driver might use cgroups, eg for I/O controls and CPU
DB> schedular controls

Indeed.

DB> As such I'd expect an API to be at a slightly higher level of 
DB> abstraction, strongly typed and a single cgroup object associated
DB> with a domain object.

DB>   virDomainObjPtr dom = ...driver's internal   domain object...

DB>   virCGroupPtr  cg = virCGroupNew(dom);

DB>   # Set domain memory limit to 1 GB 
DB>   virCGroupSetMemory(cg, 1024 * 1024 * 1024);

DB>   # Remove all device permissions
DB>   virCGroupDenyAllDevices(cg);

DB>   # Allow access to /dev/null device
DB>   virCGroupAllowDevice(cg, 3, 1)

DB> Some of the existing APIs could be made static since they'd be
DB> needed anyway, but some could be re-design to be tailored to
DB> the semantics we want.

Okay, I'll reswizzle it and re-post.

-- 
Dan Smith
IBM Linux Technology Center
Open Hypervisor Team
email: danms at us.ibm.com
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