Re: suspend blockers & Android integration

[Ingo Molnar]

* Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Fri, 2010-06-04 at 11:43 +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> > I still believe containment is a cgroup problem. The freeze/snapshot/resume
> > container folks seem to face many of the same problems. Including the
> > pending timer one I suspect. Lets solve it there. 
> 
> While talking to Thomas about this, we'd probably need a CLOCK_MONOTONIC 
> namespace to pull this off, so that resumed apps don't see the jump in 
> absolute time.
> 
> This would also help with locating the relevant timers, since they'd be on 
> the related timer base.

Ok - this looks workable, and looks technically isolated that can be pursued 
as a separate module of this whole topic.

> The only 'interesting' issue I can see here is that if you create 1000 
> CLOCK_MONOTONIC namepaces, we'd need to have a tree of trees in order to 
> efficiently find the leftmost timer.

Realistically Android userspace would create just a single such namespace for 
all the untrusted/unknown/uncontrolled apps, right?

	Ingo
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