Re: [PATCHSET for-4.11] cgroup: implement cgroup v2 thread mode

From: Mike Galbraith
Date: Thu Feb 09 2017 - 10:17:11 EST


On Thu, 2017-02-09 at 15:47 +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 09, 2017 at 05:07:16AM -0800, Paul Turner wrote:
> > The only case that this does not support vs ".threads" would be some
> > hybrid where we co-mingle threads from different processes (with the
> > processes belonging to the same node in the hierarchy). I'm not aware
> > of any usage that looks like this.
>
> If I understand you right; this is a fairly common thing with RT where
> we would stuff all the !rt threads of the various processes in a 'misc'
> bucket.
>
> Similarly, it happens that we stuff the various rt threads of processes
> in a specific (shared) 'rt' bucket.
>
> So I would certainly not like to exclude that setup.

Absolutely, you just described my daily bread performance setup.

-Mike