linux-kernel - Re: [Announce] [patch] Modular Scheduler Core and Completely Fair Scheduler [CFS]

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Message-ID: <20070418194339.GA26739@elte.hu>
Date:	Wed, 18 Apr 2007 21:43:39 +0200
From:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
To:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	Matt Mackall <mpm@...enic.com>, Nick Piggin <npiggin@...e.de>,
	William Lee Irwin III <wli@...omorphy.com>,
	Peter Williams <pwil3058@...pond.net.au>,
	Mike Galbraith <efault@....de>,
	Con Kolivas <kernel@...ivas.org>, ck list <ck@....kolivas.org>,
	Bill Huey <billh@...ppy.monkey.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...radead.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Subject: Re: [Announce] [patch] Modular Scheduler Core and Completely Fair Scheduler [CFS]


* Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org> wrote:

> For example, maybe we can approximate it by spreading out the 
> statistics: right now you have things like
> 
>  - last_ran, wait_runtime, sum_wait_runtime..
> 
> be per-thread things. [...]

yes, yes, yes! :) My thinking is "struct sched_group" embedded into 
_arbitrary_ other resource containers and abstractions, which 
sched_group's are then in a simple hierarchy and are driven by the core 
scheduling machinery.

> [...] Maybe some of those can be spread out, so that you put a part of 
> them in the "struct vm_struct" thing (to approximate processes), part 
> of them in the "struct user" struct (to approximate the user-level 
> thing), and part of it in a per-container thing for when/if we support 
> that kind of thing?

yes.

	Ingo
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