Messages in this thread | | | Subject | [RFC] Class-based Kernel Resource Management | From | Shailabh Nagar <> | Date | 29 Aug 2003 15:51:48 -0400 |
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As promised at the Ottawa Linux Symposium presentation in July, here is the first code drop for the Class-based Kernel Resource Management project.
The Class-based Kernel Resource Management (CKRM) project seeks to develop Linux kernel mechanisms providing differentiated service to resources such as CPU time, memory pages, I/O and incoming network bandwith based on user defined groups of tasks called classes. Changes to the primary resource schedulers such as O(1) (cpu), deadline/CFQ (I/O) , VM page manager (memory) and inbound network connection managers will be explored and developed.
More details on the project can be found at
http://ckrm.sf.net
including
- the paper and presentation at the Ottawa Linux Symposium 2003 - current status - patches, modules, user programs - detailed description of individual components and - results from the version that was talked about at OLS'03.
The current CKRM design consists of the following components:
1) Core patch: Kernel patch defining kernel API and hooks for the classification module and individual resource (cpu,mem,io,net) controllers.
2) Classification and user API module: Loadable module implementing a Rule-based Classification Engine (RBCE) and defining a user API to CKRM. Requires the core patch.
3) CPU controller: Kernel patch implementing class-based CPU control.Requires the core patch and some classification module like RBCE.
4) Memory controller: Kernel patch for class-based control of physical memory. Requires the core patch and some classification module like RBCE.
5) I/O controller: Design proposed in OLS. To be developed in conjunction with Jens Axboe's next version of CFQ I/O scheduler.
6) Inbound network controller: Design proposed. In development.
The next few mail will contain the patches for 1),3) and 4), the module for 2).
If you are interested in this project, please join the ckrm-tech mailing list at http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ckrm-tech
You are also welcome to join as a developer by sending a mail to the project admins Hubertus Franke (frankeh@users.sf.net) and Shailabh Nagar (nagar@users.sf.net).
CKRM has been jointly developed by a number of folks including Hubertus Franke, Shailabh Nagar, Chandra Seetharaman, Jiantao Kong, Haoqiang Zheng, Vivek Kashyap, Nivedita Singhvi and Jonghyuk Choi.
-- Shailabh
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