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

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Message-Id: <201011201518.19978.thomas@fjellstrom.ca>
Date:	Sat, 20 Nov 2010 15:18:19 -0700
From:	Thomas Fjellstrom <thomas@...llstrom.ca>
To:	Konstantin Svist <fry.kun@...il.com>
Cc:	Linux Kernel List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC/RFT PATCH v3] sched: automated per tty task groups

On November 20, 2010, you wrote:
> On 11/20/2010 11:51 AM, Mike Galbraith wrote:
> > On Sat, 2010-11-20 at 20:33 +0100, Jesper Juhl wrote:
> >> On Mon, 15 Nov 2010, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> >>> On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 2:41 PM,<Valdis.Kletnieks@...edu>  wrote:
> >>>> So the set of all tasks that never call proc_set_tty() ends up in the
> >>>> same one big default group, correct?
> >>> 
> >>> Well, yes and no.
> >>> 
> >>> Yes, that's what the code currently does. But I did ask Mike (and he
> >>> delivered) to try to make the code look and work in a way where the
> >>> whole "tty thing" is just one of the heuristics.
> >>> 
> >>> It's not clear exactly what the non-tty heuristics would be, but I do
> >>> 
> >>> have a few suggestions:
> >>>   -  I think it might be a good idea to associate a task group with the
> >>> 
> >>> current "cred" of a process, and fall back on it in the absense of a
> >>> tty-provided one.
> >> 
> >> Or how about (just brainstorming here) a group per 'process group'?
> > 
> > I switched to per session, which on my system at least looks like more
> > than enough granularity
> 
> Will that have an effect on software like Chromium which creates a fork
> for each tab? If a user opens Thunderbird and Chromium with 100 tabs,
> Thunderbird should probably get 50% CPU time instead of just 1%...

At least on my machine, all of the chromium processes have the same session 
id.

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