linux-kernel - Re: How to disable group scheduler correctly?

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Message-ID: <6599ad830807280947j21fda44ajd51ce1dd523d9472@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Mon, 28 Jul 2008 09:47:26 -0700
From:	"Paul Menage" <menage@...gle.com>
To:	"Bill Davidsen" <davidsen@....com>
Cc:	luis6674@...oo.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: How to disable group scheduler correctly?

On Sun, Jul 27, 2008 at 4:24 PM, Bill Davidsen <davidsen@....com> wrote:
> Would be nice to have a clean way to do this at runtime, so you could run a
> distribution kernel and just avoid the group part of the scheduling.

If the cgroups scheduler is enabled but you don't actually create any
cpu scheduler cgroups, then you're just scheduling across a single
group that contains all processes/threads. Is that distinguishable
from not having group scheduling at all?

Paul
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