linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] Hookup group-scheduler with task container infrastructure

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Message-Id: <20070911085301.ca3a00e4.randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Date:	Tue, 11 Sep 2007 08:53:01 -0700
From:	Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@...cle.com>
To:	vatsa@...ux.vnet.ibm.com
Cc:	Cedric Le Goater <clg@...ibm.com>, Paul Menage <menage@...gle.com>,
	Dmitry Adamushko <dmitry.adamushko@...il.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	ckrm-tech@...ts.sourceforge.net, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	containers@...ts.osdl.org,
	Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@...putergmbh.de>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Hookup group-scheduler with task container
 infrastructure

On Tue, 11 Sep 2007 21:21:19 +0530 Srivatsa Vaddagiri wrote:

> On Tue, Sep 11, 2007 at 08:22:43AM -0700, Randy Dunlap wrote:
> > That looks odd, like it's a filesystem.
> > What does cfs really mean?
> 
> cfs = completely fair scheduler :)
> 
> In this thread, we are talking of hooking the cfs cpu scheduler with the
> task-container framework in -mm tree, so that the scheduler can deal
> with groups of tasks rather than just tasks, while handling fairness of
> cpu allocation.
> 
> I agree "cfs" control subsystem does look odd a bit here. "cpu" control
> subsystem seems better.

Thanks.  I agree that using "cpu" is better.  I.e., don't tie it
to a particular scheduler name.  It would just need to change the
next time we have a new scheduler.  ;)


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~Randy
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