linux-kernel - Re: [patch 00/18] CFS Bandwidth Control v7.2

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Date:	Mon, 19 Sep 2011 10:33:04 +0200
From:	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>
To:	Vladimir Davydov <VDavydov@...allels.com>
Cc:	Paul Turner <pjt@...gle.com>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Bharata B Rao <bharata@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Dhaval Giani <dhaval.giani@...il.com>,
	Balbir Singh <bsingharora@...il.com>,
	Vaidyanathan Srinivasan <svaidy@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Srivatsa Vaddagiri <vatsa@...ibm.com>,
	Kamalesh Babulal <kamalesh@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Hidetoshi Seto <seto.hidetoshi@...fujitsu.com>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	Pavel Emelianov <xemul@...allels.com>,
	Jason Baron <jbaron@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: [patch 00/18] CFS Bandwidth Control v7.2

On Mon, 2011-09-19 at 12:22 +0400, Vladimir Davydov wrote:
> But communicating tasks do not necessarily wake each other even if
> they exchange data through the pipe. And of course, if they use shared
> memory (e.g. threads), it is not obligatory at all. Also, the
> wake-affine path is cpu-load aware, i.e. it tries not to overload a
> cpu it is going to wake a task on. For instance, if we run a context
> switch test on an idle host, the two tasks will be executing on
> different cpus although it is better to execute them together on the
> same cpu.

This is not a problem specific to cgroups, and thus the solution
shouldn't ever live as something related to cgroups.


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