linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 00/11] another rt group sched update

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Message-Id: <1199707948.7143.32.camel@twins>
Date:	Mon, 07 Jan 2008 13:12:28 +0100
From:	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>
To:	vatsa@...ux.vnet.ibm.com
Cc:	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	Balbir Singh <balbir@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	dmitry.adamushko@...il.com, Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
	Gregory Haskins <ghaskins@...ell.com>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/11] another rt group sched update


On Mon, 2008-01-07 at 17:53 +0530, Srivatsa Vaddagiri wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 07, 2008 at 11:51:20AM +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> >  - figure out what to do for UID based group scheduling, the current
> >    implementation leaves it impossible for !root users to execute
> >    real time tasks by setting rt_runtime_us to 0, and it has no way
> >    to change it.
> > 
> >    Srivatsa, what happened to the per uid weight patches?, Perhaps we
> >    can extend that interface to allow changing this.
> 
> Hi Peter,
> 	The sysfs interface for tweaking each user's share should be in
> mainline already (sysfs_create_file() in user_kobject_create()). This
> could be extended for your purpose, hopefully in a straightforward
> manner (you never know that with sysfs :(

Ah, I missed that going in. Thanks, I'll give it a go.

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