Re: [PATCH 1/9] Remove parent field in cpuacct cgroup

From: Peter Zijlstra
Date: Mon Sep 19 2011 - 14:41:19 EST


On Mon, 2011-09-19 at 13:41 -0300, Glauber Costa wrote:
> On 09/19/2011 01:39 PM, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> > On Mon, 2011-09-19 at 13:30 -0300, Glauber Costa wrote:
> >> Since this value is at least intended to
> >> provide a basis for cpu capping in the near future (Well, it is not
> >> there, but I think it is), it is expected to be used much more
> >> frequently by the kernel itself.
> >
> > We just merged a bandwidth limiter quite separate from cpuacct.
>
> Note I was talking about cpuusage. Well, in this case, I myself fail
> to see the value of the whole cpuusage thing... Someone that sees
> further could maybe help us out here? (but this is sideways to the whole
> discussion we're having anyway)

Would probably do to cc the cpuacct authors in this patch set ;-) I
think it came from IBM, so I added vatsa.
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