linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 3/3] sched: Implement interface for cgroup unified hierarchy

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Date:	Tue, 25 Aug 2015 12:00:54 +0200
From:	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
To:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>
Cc:	Paul Turner <pjt@...gle.com>, Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>,
	Austin S Hemmelgarn <ahferroin7@...il.com>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
	Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>, lizefan@...wei.com,
	cgroups <cgroups@...r.kernel.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	kernel-team <kernel-team@...com>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] sched: Implement interface for cgroup unified
 hierarchy

On Tue, Aug 25, 2015 at 11:24:42AM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> 
> * Paul Turner <pjt@...gle.com> wrote:
> 
> > > Anyways, a point here is that threads of the same process competing
> > > isn't a new problem.  There are many ways to make those threads play
> > > nice as the application itself often has to be involved anyway,
> > > especially for something like qemu which is heavily involved in
> > > provisioning resources.
> > 
> > It's certainly not a new problem, but it's a real one, and it's
> > _hard_.  You're proposing removing the best known solution.
> 
> Also, just to make sure this is resolved properly, I'm NAK-ing the current 
> scheduler bits in this series:
> 
>   NAKed-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>
> 
> until all of pjt's API design concerns are resolved. This is conceptual, it is not 
> a 'we can fix it later' detail.
> 
> Tejun, please keep me Cc:-ed to future versions of this series so that I can lift 
> the NAK if things get resolved.

You can add:

NAKed-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>

to that.

There have been at least 3 different groups of people:

 - Mike, representing Suse customers
 - Kamezawa-san, representing Fujitsu customers
 - Paul, representing Google

that claim per-thread control groups are in use and important.

Any replacement _must_ provide for this use case up front; its not
something that can be cobbled on later.
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