Re: [RFC] CPU controllers?

[Chris Friesen]

Mike Galbraith wrote:

> Scheduling contexts do sound useful.  They're easily defeated though, as
> evolution mail demonstrates to me every time it's GUI hangs and I see
> that a nice 19 find is running, eating very little CPU, but effectively
> DoSing evolution nonetheless (journal).  I wonder how often people who
> tried to distribute CPU would likewise be stymied by other resources.

We do a lot with diskless blades.  Basically cpu(s), memory, and network 
ports.

For this case, cpu, memory, and network controllers are sufficient. 
Even just cpu gets you a long way, since mostly we're not IO-intensive 
and we generally have a pretty good idea of memory consumption.

Chris
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