Containers/Mini-summit 2008

There will be a containers mini-summit at the OLS'08. This page is for organizing this mini-summit. Feel free to edit.

When: 21st or 22nd of July 2008
Where: Ottawa, ON, Canada.

Proposal

The mini-summit proposal sent to OLS organizers. See /proposal.

Topics to discuss

• Device accessibility cgroup (maybe with remap ability)
• TTYs
• Syslog
• Checkpoint/restart
• Memory controllers
• more?..

List of attendees

Please fill in your name here if you are going to attend, or email kir at openvz dot org if you are too lazy. Surely the list is not final, so put your name even if you are not sure you can make it.

This list is in no particular order.

1. Kir Kolyshkin
2. Pavel Emelyanov
3. Denis Lunev
4. Andrey Mirkin
5. Serge Hallyn
6. Dave Hansen
7. Cedric Le Goater
8. Daniel Lezcano
9. Srivatsa Vaddagiri
10. Balbir Singh
11. Sukadev Bhattiprolu
12. Paul Menage
13. Eric W. Biederman
14. Oren Laadan
15. Yamamoto Takashi
16. Kamezawa Hiroyuki
17. Benjamin Thery
18. Herbert Pötzl
19. Oleg Nesterov
20. Dhaval Giani

Agenda

• Namespaces/Containers
  • Additional needed namespaces
  • Nature of a 'container' — kernel object or userspace fiction
  • Handling of /proc and /sysfs within containers
  • Handling filesystem/namespace synchronization (not sure what the issue is)
  • How to enter a container
  • User namespaces?
• Cgroups+Resource management
  • Cgroup implementation
  • Additional cgroups and their design
  • Resource management
• Checkpoint/Restart
  • Summary of existing c/r patchsets/designs
  • How to initiate and synchronize checkpoint/restart
  • (state of freezer subsystem?)
  • Memory state dump
  • How to dump/fetch data for resource (file, ipc) checkpoint
  • How to do restart

See also

• http://www.linuxsymposium.org/2008/cfp.php — OLS call for papers
• https://lists.linux-foundation.org/pipermail/containers/2008-January/009688.html