Resource Management in Linux - Rami Rosen

Abstract

• Resource management in Linux
• Kernel Namespaces implementation (kernel 3.8)
• Kernel Namespaces as an infrastructure for process virtualizaton
  • Network namespaces and pid namespaces kernel implementation
  • System calls for namespaces
  • usage examples - creating linux namespaces in user space and attaching process to these namespaces
• cgroup kernel implementation
  • cgroup VFS
  • cgroup filesystem ops for handling cgroups (create/attach processes, cgroup subsystem VFS specific operations, etc) examples
  • The cgroup release agent and the notification API + examples
  • Memory controller (memcg) example (disabling oom killer)
  • Two networking controllers examples
  • linbvgroup-tools + examples
• Checkpoint/Restart in brief

Download the lecture slides here. Audio recordings of the lecture: Part 1 and Part 2.

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