Re: [PATCH 3/3] sched: Implement interface for cgroup unified hierarchy

[Linus Torvalds]

On Sun, Oct 25, 2015 at 11:18 AM, Tejun Heo <tj@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> We definitely need to weigh the inputs from heavy users but also need
> to discern the actual problems which need to be solved from the
> specific mechanisms chosen to solve them.  Let's please keep the
> discussions technical.  That's the best way to reach a viable
> long-term solution which can benefit a lot wider audience in the long
> term.  Even though that might not be the path of least immediate
> resistance, I believe that google will be an eventual beneficiary too.

So here's a somewhat odd request I got to hear very recently (at
LinuxCon EU in Ireland)..

A least some game engine writers apparently would like to be able to
set scheduling priorities for threads within a single process, because
they may want te game as a whole to have a certain priority, but then
some of the threads are critical for latency and may want certain
guaranteed resources (eg audio or actual gameplay) while others are
very much background things (garbage collection etc).

I suspect that's a very non-google use. We apparently don't really
support that kind of per-thread model right now at all.

Do they want cgroups? Maybe not. You can apparently do something like
this under Windows and OS X, but not under Linux (and I'm reporting
second-hand here, I don't know the exact details). I'm just bringing
it up as a somewhat unusual non-server thing that is certainly very
relevant despite being different.

                 Linus
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