linux-kernel - Re: [patch 00/18] CFS Bandwidth Control v7.2

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Message-ID: <1315922402.5977.10.camel@twins>
Date:	Tue, 13 Sep 2011 16:00:02 +0200
From:	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>
To:	Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@...allels.com>
Cc:	Paul Turner <pjt@...gle.com>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Bharata B Rao <bharata@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Dhaval Giani <dhaval.giani@...il.com>,
	Balbir Singh <bsingharora@...il.com>,
	Vaidyanathan Srinivasan <svaidy@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Srivatsa Vaddagiri <vatsa@...ibm.com>,
	Kamalesh Babulal <kamalesh@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Hidetoshi Seto <seto.hidetoshi@...fujitsu.com>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	Pavel Emelianov <xemul@...allels.com>,
	Jason Baron <jbaron@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: [patch 00/18] CFS Bandwidth Control v7.2

On Tue, 2011-09-13 at 16:10 +0400, Vladimir Davydov wrote:

> In other words, I'd like to know if your code (or the scheduler code)
> tries to gather all tasks of the same cgroup on such a subset of all
> CPUs 

No

> so that the tasks can't execute less CPUs without losing quota
> during each period. 

what?!

> And if not, are you going to address the issue? 

and no.

There is nothing special about being part of a cgroup that warrants
that, as for pipes the scheduler already tries to pull the waking task
to the cpu of the waker if possible (or an idle cache sibling).


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