linux-kernel - Re: RFC: documentation of the autogroup feature [v2]

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Message-ID: <af075c46-152a-0392-d33f-c7956d3c8a0b@gmail.com>
Date:   Fri, 25 Nov 2016 21:54:05 +0100
From:   "Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)" <mtk.manpages@...il.com>
To:     Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
Cc:     mtk.manpages@...il.com, Mike Galbraith <efault@....de>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>,
        linux-man <linux-man@...r.kernel.org>,
        lkml <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Subject: Re: RFC: documentation of the autogroup feature [v2]

Hi Peter,

On 11/25/2016 05:34 PM, Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) wrote:
> On 11/25/2016 05:18 PM, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
>> On Fri, Nov 25, 2016 at 05:08:44PM +0100, Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) wrote:
>>> On 11/25/2016 04:51 PM, Mike Galbraith wrote:
>>> Well that's one way of looking at it. So, the change 
>>> that I'm talking about came in 2.6.32 with CFS then?
>>
>> cfs-cgroup landed later I think, and it was fairly wobbly in the first
>> few release (as per usual I'd say for major features).
> 
> So I've been searching git logs and elsewhere, but didn't yet
> find a likely commit(s). Any clues what I should be looking for.
> I'd like this info, because while documenting the changes, I'd
> also like to document when they occurred.

So, part of what I was struggling with was what you meant by cfs-cgroup.
Do you mean the CFS bandwidth control features added in Linux 3.2?

Cheers,

Michael


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