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

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Message-Id: <1176966865.6408.71.camel@Homer.simpson.net>
Date:	Thu, 19 Apr 2007 09:14:25 +0200
From:	Mike Galbraith <efault@....de>
To:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
Cc:	Davide Libenzi <davidel@...ilserver.org>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Matt Mackall <mpm@...enic.com>, Nick Piggin <npiggin@...e.de>,
	William Lee Irwin III <wli@...omorphy.com>,
	Peter Williams <pwil3058@...pond.net.au>,
	Con Kolivas <kernel@...ivas.org>, ck list <ck@....kolivas.org>,
	Bill Huey <billh@...ppy.monkey.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <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]

On Thu, 2007-04-19 at 08:52 +0200, Mike Galbraith wrote:
> On Wed, 2007-04-18 at 23:48 +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> 
> > so my current impression is that we want per UID accounting to solve the 
> > X problem, the kernel threads problem and the many-users problem, but 
> > i'd not want to do it for threads just yet because for them there's not 
> > really any apparent problem to be solved.
> 
> If you really mean UID vs EUID as Linus mentioned, I suppose I could
> learn to login as !root, and set KDE up to always give me root shells.
> 
> With a heavily reniced X (perfectly fine), that should indeed solve my
> daily usage pattern nicely (always need godmode for shells, but not for
> mozilla and ilk. 50/50 split automatic without renice of entire gui)

Backward, needs to be EUID as Linus suggested.  Kernel builds etc along
with reniced X in root's bucket, surfing and whatnot in Joe-User's
bucket.

	-Mike

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