linux-kernel - Re: [RFC/RFT PATCH v3] sched: automated per tty task groups

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Date:	Tue, 16 Nov 2010 15:47:38 +0100
From:	Dhaval Giani <dhaval.giani@...il.com>
To:	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>
Cc:	Mike Galbraith <efault@....de>, Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@...hat.com>,
	Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Markus Trippelsdorf <markus@...ppelsdorf.de>,
	Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@...icios.com>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Balbir Singh <balbir@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Lennart Poettering <lennart@...ttering.net>
Subject: Re: [RFC/RFT PATCH v3] sched: automated per tty task groups

On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 3:11 PM, Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl> wrote:
> On Tue, 2010-11-16 at 07:02 -0700, Mike Galbraith wrote:
>> While you can identify firefox etc,
>> it's not being done, and requires identifying every application.  Heck,
>> cgroups is built in, but userspace doesn't even mount.  Nothing but
>> nothing uses cgroups.
>
> The yet another init rewrite called systemd is supposedly cgroup happy..
> No idea if its going to be useful though, I doubt its going to have an
> effect on me launching a konsole or the like, or screen creating a bunch
> of ttys.

systemd uses cgroups only for process tracking. No resource
management. Though afaik, Lennart has some plans of doing resource
management using systemd. I wonder how autogroups will interact with
systemd in that case.

Dhaval
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