Re: [PATCHSET RFC cgroup/for-4.6] cgroup, sched: implement resource group and PRIO_RGRP

From: Mike Galbraith
Date: Wed Apr 13 2016 - 15:15:45 EST


On Wed, 2016-04-13 at 11:59 -0400, Tejun Heo wrote:

> Are you saying that you're aware that google or another big outfit is
> making active use of internal tasks competing against sibling cgroups
> for proportional CPU distribution? If so, can you please be more
> specific?

What I'm aware of is a big outfit that moves thread pool workers in/out
of a large number of cpu/cpuacct cgroups. What all a worker thread may
spawn in a cgroup, or find already there upon arrival and thus compete
with I do not know.

I'm baffled by why anyone would care which entity competes with which
other entity. An entity is an entity is an entity.

-Mike