Re: [RFC/RFT PATCH v3] sched: automated per tty task groups

From: Mike Galbraith
Date: Sun Nov 14 2010 - 18:43:36 EST


On Sun, 2010-11-14 at 12:48 -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 14, 2010 at 12:27 PM, Markus Trippelsdorf
> <markus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On 2010.11.14 at 12:20 -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> >>
> >> It isn't like it's some traditional kernel debug feature that makes
> >> things slower or adds tons of debug output.
> >
> > It also enables the sched_autogroup_handler, that you disliked seeing in
> > the previous version.
>
> Yes, but that one exists only to make things "exact". I don't really
> see why it exists. What's the point of doing the task movement, if the
> group information is just going to be ignored anyway?

Not only. pinned tasks would stay in their autogroup until somebody
moved them to a cgroup. Them wandering back over time would be fine,
and all but pinned tasks will.

-Mike


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