[Lxc-users] updated procfs

[atp]

Hi,

 Prompted by the "LXC a feature complete replacement of OpenVZ" thread,
I've uploaded my interim changes to procfs to 

http://www.tinola.com/lxc/

 Its very much a work in progress, and the code is pretty horrible in
places. Sorry its taken so long. I've learnt a lot about fuse. 

Changes from Daniels version.
  - Added support for running in zone 0.
  - Added support for selective cpuinfo reporting. 
  - Fixed reporting of meminfo. memsw.limit_in_bytes was duplicated, 
    where usage_in_bytes should have been. 
  - Added procfs_flush for fuse.
  - fuse would not supply content for proc files that returned 
    a zero st_size - which is most of them. Nasty hack implemented.
  
 The more I work with this unfortunately the more I think its the wrong
approach for a couple of reasons;

Fuse is slow and does not fit the /proc filesystem well;
  example;
   /proc files mostly report zero length, and a variety of
   methods are required (including just reading them and incrementing a 
   byte counter) to determine their size. Fuse will not output data 
   unless it gets a non-zero size from the getattr call. 
   
   So proxying is broken for some files but not others (those that 
   report a non zero size in ls -l /proc/)

Its easy to work around and get to the real /proc. I can't see it
working for /sys

My next goal is to get /proc/stat virtualised, and rework what I have to
cache more data - file sizes and the cpumask thats built from the
cpuset.cpus description.  I also need to add cache timeout to the
cpumask cache so that changes to the cpuset.cpus are reflected. 

At some point I'll either become comfortable with this, or else put my
money where my complaints are and write a loadable module that does the
same thing as a procfs_lxc. The core idea is good, I'm not sure that
fuse is the best place for it. 

 Andy







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