Re: [RFC] [PATCH 0/3] Add group fairness to CFS

From: Ingo Molnar
Date: Fri May 25 2007 - 08:07:28 EST



* Srivatsa Vaddagiri <vatsa@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Fri, May 25, 2007 at 01:11:40PM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> > > I was planning on reusing smpnice concepts here, with the difference
> > > that we balance group weights across CPU in addition to total weight
> > > of CPUs.
> >
> > ok, that would be (much) simpler that any explicit vcpu approach. Do you
> > plan to add this next?
>
> sure, after i first cleanup current group changes a bit. Hopefully I
> can send you first version of smp support by early next week.

great. Btw., could you please keep the "up to this point there should be
no behavioral change in CFS" fundamental splitup of your patches - that
way i can look at the core changes (and possibly apply them) without
having to consider the uid based changes (which do change behavior and
which need more upstream buy-in).

Ingo
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