linux-kernel - Re: [RFC/RFT PATCH] sched: automated per tty task groups

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Message-Id: <1287493952.24189.44.camel@marge.simson.net>
Date:	Tue, 19 Oct 2010 15:12:32 +0200
From:	Mike Galbraith <efault@....de>
To:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
Cc:	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@...icios.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC/RFT PATCH] sched: automated per tty task groups

On Tue, 2010-10-19 at 13:56 +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:

> Could this feature realistically do block IO isolation as well? It's always annoying 
> when some big IO job is making the desktop jerky. Especially as your patch is 
> selecting the block cgroup feature already:
> 
> +       select BLK_CGROUP

I know my cgroup pgid config helps a bunch with rummaging in my email
while other IO is going on.  I've been attributing that to BLK_CGROUP,
but have no proof.

	-Mike

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