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SubjectRe: [PATCH 0/5] RFC: CGroup Namespaces
Quoting Aditya Kali (adityakali@google.com):
> Background
> Cgroups and Namespaces are used together to create “virtual”
> containers that isolates the host environment from the processes
> running in container. But since cgroups themselves are not
> “virtualized”, the task is always able to see global cgroups view
> through cgroupfs mount and via /proc/self/cgroup file.
>
> $ cat /proc/self/cgroup
> 0:cpuset,cpu,cpuacct,memory,devices,freezer,hugetlb:/batchjobs/c_job_id1
>
> This exposure of cgroup names to the processes running inside a
> container results in some problems:
> (1) The container names are typically host-container-management-agent
> (systemd, docker/libcontainer, etc.) data and leaking its name (or
> leaking the hierarchy) reveals too much information about the host
> system.
> (2) It makes the container migration across machines (CRIU) more
> difficult as the container names need to be unique across the
> machines in the migration domain.
> (3) It makes it difficult to run container management tools (like
> docker/libcontainer, lmctfy, etc.) within virtual containers
> without adding dependency on some state/agent present outside the
> container.
>
> Note that the feature proposed here is completely different than the
> “ns cgroup” feature which existed in the linux kernel until recently.
> The ns cgroup also attempted to connect cgroups and namespaces by
> creating a new cgroup every time a new namespace was created. It did
> not solve any of the above mentioned problems and was later dropped
> from the kernel.
>
> Introducing CGroup Namespaces
> With unified cgroup hierarchy
> (Documentation/cgroups/unified-hierarchy.txt), the containers can now
> have a much more coherent cgroup view and its easy to associate a
> container with a single cgroup. This also allows us to virtualize the
> cgroup view for tasks inside the container.

Hi,

So right now we basically do this in userspace using cgmanager. Each
container/chroot/whatever that has a cgproxy is 'locked' under that
proxy's cgroup. So if root in a container asks the cgproxy for the
cgroup of pid 2000, and cgproxy is in /lxc/u1 while pid 2000 in the
container is in /lxc/u1/service1, then the response will be '/service1'.
Same happens with creating cgroups, moving pids into cgroups, etc.

(Hoping to take a close look at this set early next week)

-serge
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