[libvirt] [PATCH] Change default resource partition to /machine

Eric Blake eblake at redhat.com
Thu Apr 18 14:33:41 UTC 2013


On 04/18/2013 04:11 AM, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> From: "Daniel P. Berrange" <berrange at redhat.com>
> 
> After discussions with systemd developers it was decided that
> a better default policy for resource partitions is to have
> 3 default partitions at the top level
> 
>    /system   - system services
>    /machine - virtual machines / containers
>    /user    - user login session
> 
> This ensures that the default policy isolates guest from
> user login sessions & system services, so a mis-behaving
> guest can't consume 100% of CPU usage if other things are
> contending for it.
> 
> Thus we change the default partition from /system to
> /machine
> 
> Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrange <berrange at redhat.com>
> ---
>  src/lxc/lxc_cgroup.c   | 2 +-
>  src/qemu/qemu_cgroup.c | 2 +-
>  2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

ACK.  But is it worth making this configurable in qemu.conf/lxc.conf, in
case policy changes yet again?

-- 
Eric Blake   eblake redhat com    +1-919-301-3266
Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org

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