linux-kernel - [patch] sched, cgroups: fix MIN

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Date:	Sat, 04 Jun 2011 11:29:56 +0200
From:	Mike Galbraith <mgalbraith@...e.de>
To:	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Cc:	Nikhil Rao <ncrao@...gle.com>,
	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
Subject: [patch] sched, cgroups: fix MIN_SHARES on 64 bit boxen


c8b28116 claimed to have no user-visible effect, but allows setting cpu.shares
to < MIN_SHARES, which the user then indeed sees.

Signed-off-by: Mike Galbraith <efault@....de>
---
 kernel/sched.c |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

Index: linux-2.6/kernel/sched.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.orig/kernel/sched.c
+++ linux-2.6/kernel/sched.c
@@ -292,7 +292,7 @@ static DEFINE_SPINLOCK(task_group_lock);
  * (The default weight is 1024 - so there's no practical
  *  limitation from this.)
  */
-#define MIN_SHARES	2
+#define MIN_SHARES	(scale_load(2))
 #define MAX_SHARES	(1UL << (18 + SCHED_LOAD_RESOLUTION))
 
 static int root_task_group_load = ROOT_TASK_GROUP_LOAD;


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